Political Quotes

“I represent the south side of Chicago and the south suburbs, of course, an area that is going from farmland to subdivision in many cases. We have a lot of family farmers in the Frankfurt and Mokena area, in the Manhattan area in Will County, and they would like to stay in the farming business. But many of them have told me the story of when grandpa died, because the value of that land for development purposes, even though they wanted to keep it in the family farm, continue farming it, keep it in open space, because they like farming and it is a family business, because of the estate tax and the value of that land if they sold it to somebody who would develop it and build houses or put a factory there, turn it into an industrial park, they were forced to sell off a piece of grandpa's farm in order to pay the estate tax. So if you care about open space, about urban conservation, farmland and urban sprawl and frankly the environment, you should work for the elimination of the death tax.”