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On the recordJuly 25, 2012
If the Senator will yield for a moment, this has also the same effect on mom-and-pops, family businesses that may have been in a family for generations. We are going to impose a 55-percent confiscatory tax on them. I am just speechless that this bill has now gotten to the point where it brings us back to the earlier punitive estate tax rates.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi
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Jul 25, 2012

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