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Mike Thompson: I hope we can get away from the rhetoric. It is not death tax, it is estate tax.

On the recordMarch 17, 2015
I hope we can get away from the rhetoric. It is not death tax, it is estate tax.
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California

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Thompson calls for clarity in the estate tax debate, criticizing misleading terminology.

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