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19/12/2011

Nick Clegg Doubts Tax Breaks Will Encourage Marriage

Nick Clegg has hit out at the idea that tax breaks will encourage more couples to tie the knot.

Ahead of the Deputy PMs coalition partners push for the benefit he told Sky news that the Conservative ministers seek a return to the 1950s.

He told Sky News' Murnaghan show: "As a liberal, I just think there are limits as to how much the state should try and micromanage and incentivise people's own behaviour in their private life.

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"Most people get married because they love each other, not because they have looked at their tax returns and seen that they are going to get some cash back from the state.

"My own view is that it is undoubtedly the case that children thrive best when they see their parents are happy together and they have got both mothers and fathers to help in their upbringing.

"We need to get away from the idea that something on a piece of paper that says if you are married that is good and if you are not married it is not."

Clegg believes that the decision to get married should be a private one.

(GK)



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"Nick Clegg has hit out at the idea that tax breaks will encourage more couples to tie the knot."