We paid more taxes after marriage than before... if you both work.. you generally pay more

This could have just been his way of gauging your reaction. My fiance used to crack jokes like that all the time before he really proposed, because he wanted to see if I would get all freaked out that he said the "m" word. So maybe it was really a good thing?

Sounds reasonable.

MY DICK HURTS!

Sounds like a pretty well thought out proposal, did he also say that a ring would be a waste of money and that should go towards the kid, who you will raise in his mothers yard becuasae mortgage is a scam?

By the way you put it, I assume he was just kidding.

maybe he was nervous...

BEST....PROPOSAL......EVER

Itemized deductions anybody? They're a hell of a lot easier and more cost effective (at least for the man) than a bad marriage.

Lol, he wants to benefits really bad.