Kenny Hulshof: “the question is a simple one, I say to my friend from New York (Mr. Rangel), should the death of a family member be a…”

“the question is a simple one, I say to my friend from New York (Mr. Rangel), should the death of a family member be a taxable event? Should the passing of one's mother or father who have worked hard to build a business to pass on to their descendants, should that event, that personal tragedy, should that be a taxable event? If my colleagues believe that it should be, then vote to sustain the veto of the President. If my colleagues think it should not be a tax event, then vote to override the President's veto. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from Texas (Chairman Archer) for yielding me some time, and I suspect that we are going to hear throughout this period of debate the weary class warfare argument from the defenders of the death tax, that this is a tax for the wealthy. Rather than get caught up in revenue projections and distribution tables and effective dates and whether we have an immediate tax relief or not in our prescription drugs, I would like to tell my colleagues briefly about a constituent family of mine, the Eiffert family.”