NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Mr. Speaker, later this week we will come to this floor to vote on putting at long last the death tax to death, and we…”

“Mr. Speaker, later this week we will come to this floor to vote on putting at long last the death tax to death, and we will be offered a clear choice. Some in this chamber will embrace the politics of envy, but, Mr. Speaker, I believe a bipartisan majority will embrace the principles of fairness, hope and opportunity, for that is what we seek. As my good friend from Illinois just pointed out, there is no tax more unfair than this death tax. Stop and think about it. Think back to the very foundations of our Nation, to one of our founders, Benjamin Franklin, who had a gifted and diverse career, who indeed won much public acclaim and a fair amount of his fortune as a social commentator in Poor Richard's Almanac when he observed, ``There are only two certainties in life, death and taxes.'' But even Dr. Franklin, with all his wisdom, with his ability to seemingly see into the future, not even a person as impressive as Dr. Franklin do I believe would realize that one day the constitutional republic that he helped to found would literally tax its citizens upon the day of their death. The rallying cry is simple, my colleagues. The American people instinctively understand it. No taxation without respiration.”