Marriage privatization their partnership; they would have a private marriage ceremony if they so chose in order to honor their private religious or philosophical concept of marriage. In a July 2008 article appearing in "The Monist" titled "Privatizing Marriage" Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein and University of Chicago economist Richard H. Thaler offer arguments for the privatization of marriage. Thaler and Sunstein also take up the topic in their co-authored 2008 book "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Wealth, Health, and Happiness." Sunstein and Thaler argue for marriage privatization among other positions under the heading of what they call "Libertarian Paternalism". Opposition to marriage
Cass Sunstein legal standing to do so. Sunstein suggests that granting standing to animals, actionable by other parties, could decrease animal cruelty by increasing the likelihood that animal abuse will be punished. Sunstein has argued, "We should celebrate tax day." Sunstein argues that since government (in the form of police, fire departments, insured banks, and courts) protects and preserves property and liberty, individuals should happily finance it with their tax dollars: In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts fully 'ours'? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have inherited it without the assistance