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Spectator letters: Why we should subsidise weddings

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22 November 2014

9:00 AM

22 November 2014

9:00 AM

Let’s subsidise weddings

Sir: Fraser Nelson (‘Marrying money’, 15 November) points out that marriages tend to last longer than cohabitations and that this is a good thing. But there is only one obvious difference between being married and merely cohabitating. If you are married you’ve been through a marriage ceremony and if you’re not you haven’t.

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