Chris Chocola: “I rise in support of H.R. 8 and opposed to the amendment. The bottom line is anybody who spends their whole life…”

“I rise in support of H.R. 8 and opposed to the amendment. The bottom line is anybody who spends their whole life building a business or growing a farm should never have to sell that business or that farm to pay death taxes. The American dream is based on the principles of hard work and the celebration of self-reliance and individual responsibility. People can reap the rewards of their own success, and they should be encouraged to share that success with others. The death tax and this amendment violates every single one of those principles of the American Dream. It is not only the heirs that are punished by this unfair tax, it is the employees of those companies and those farms, and it is the customers, and it is most of all the communities that those farms and those businesses operate in. It is past time for Congress to repeal the death tax permanently, and I encourage all of my colleagues to support H.R. 8 and vote against this amendment.”