Right now, opposite sex spouses get tax breakes on workplace offered health insurance. If an employer is generous enough to offer health insurance to same-sex partners of employees, the IRS doesn't recognize those partners as a legal dependent, because of DOMA, and therefore subjects the benefits to several added taxes. First, while a heterosexually married couple gets the entire employee-paid premium deducted post-tax (thus reducing income taxes), a homosexual domestic partner or even same-sex married couple only gets the employee's share of premium deducted pre-tax. The premium for the same-sex partner is deducted POST TAX due to the IRS regulations and DOMA. Second, the even larger share of premiums which is generally paid by the employer, while tax-free to the employee, and tax-free to heterosexual spouses, is considered taxable to domestic partners and even same-sex married couples under IRS regulations. Therefore, the employer must, at year end, report THEIR PORTION of the health insurance premium contribution for the same-sex partner on the employee's W-2 as "imputed income" and it becomes TAXABLE for the employee. Of ALL things in the country, and in the economy, can even Congressional opponents of same-sex marriage agree that ONE THING that ought not to be taxed is PREMIUMS FOR HEALTH INSURANCE, no matter who they are for?