Senator Santorum

[Terry Lambert]

Narvi wrote:
> > Well it comes down to, i think, legal and economic issues.  From a
> > taxation issue i can see it, imagine a guy claiming 3 wives and 2 kids
> > from each as exemptions.  Or dealing with the implications of the whole
> > family breaking up from a legal, economic and social standpoint.  I for
> > one would not want to be married to more than one woman, I don't think
> > I would survive it ;).
> 
> Well, the correct question is 'what and how can the wives claim benefits
> on'. But its a simple matter of amending the tax code. Where it gets
> tricky is if any of the wives are intermarried or married to somebody else
> and you get (possibly long) cycles.

The government likes families to form Acyclic Directed Graphs.
That way, they can compute transitive closure over the tax codes...
No Alexander Hamiltonian cycles...

-- Terry