Political Quotes

“I have seen what the death tax does to destroy families and destroy pieces of property that have been in the same family's hands for generations, that have cared for that land and have been steward of that land, and the environmental benefits that come from that. When the death of the grandfather or the great grandfather or the father comes along, it is busted up into half-acre ranchettes, and the environmental and agricultural benefits are lost. The food security issues are lost forever. We cannot unpave a parking lot, we cannot bring those families back together again, you cannot put agriculture back into practice. It is lost forever because of a quirk in our tax law which is purely redistribution of wealth. The bottom line is that they do not support the repeal of this immoral tax. They continue to support the redistribution of wealth, the penalty on ambition, the penalty on thrift, the penalty on holding those family operations together again.”