Egan testified that married people generally accumulate more wealth leading to more sales and increased property values, resulting in higher spending and more sales tax and property tax revenue for San Francisco.
He noted that marriages for same-sex couples would probably also decrease the burden on the public health system because more companies would be likely to insure both spouses if a couple is married. It’s a point that Prop. 8 lawyers disputed on one of their Twitter feeds, by noting HRC statistics showing that a majority of Fortune 500 companies now offer equal health benefits to domestic partners. But, just as that tweet from Alliance Defense Fund crossed the feed, Judge Vaughn Walker admitted into evidence a document describing an employer policy that provides health benefits to married same-sex spouses but not to domestic partners.