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As Alan Hamilton's item in The Times [15 June 1988, 3] reminds us, the BBC guidelines of the 1940s, since abandoned, were quite specific: “There is an absolute ban upon the following: jokes about lavatories, effeminacy in men, immorality of any kind, suggestive references to honeymoon couples, chambermaids, fig leaves, ladies' underwear, lodgers and commercial travellers.”
It is, of course, ridiculous that there is political hay to be made by trying to prevent same-sex couples from adopting children.
But since many couples would be holding reserves of coupons at any given time, the co-op needed to have a fairly large amount of scrip in circulation.
The paper notes that the bill now not only rewards couples who otherwise would suffer the "marriage penalty" at tax time, but also those who would not.
Blind taxpayers are allowed a larger standard deduction than sighted people ($1,050 more for a blind single, $1,700 more for blind married couples).