Another revenue option that I put forward in the past was to take the estate tax back to where it was in 2009.
Chris Van Hollen: “Another revenue option that I put forward in the past was to take the estate tax back to where it was in 2009.”
On the recordJuly 12, 2023
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Suggests increasing the estate tax to support Social Security funding.
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