HB1388 would have repealed the state’s income tax “marriage penalty.”
The Senate failed to pass HB1388 on March 25, 2025, by a vote of 13 to 33. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because the income tax, let alone the penalizing of marriage, is an immoral, anti-constitutional act of government-imposed theft that takes from people the wages they have rightfully earned. It turns citizens into slaves. A person’s property, including their income, belongs solely to them—not the state. The Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment expressly affirm that “No State” shall unjustly “deprive any person” of “liberty, or property.” North Dakota ought to reject oppressive, big government by protecting property rights.
