NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “Under the plan of my friends, the minority, the death tax is never eliminated. That points up a basic disagreement. Our…”

“Under the plan of my friends, the minority, the death tax is never eliminated. That points up a basic disagreement. Our friends on the other side, with the exception of some folks who understand the commonsense reality of trying to get rid of this tax and put it to death within the current budgetary constraints we face, a lot of my friends over there believe no how, no way should we rid ourselves of this confiscatory tax. Simultaneously, they argue every side of the issue, and suggest that we can relieve it to a certain point, but if one makes one dollar more, that is too much success and therefore that person exists to be punished. It is a simple question, really, one of fairness: Is it fairness to eventually put this death tax to death for every American, and say it is wrong to punish those who succeed, or is it better to drive a wedge in the American people; to play upon the politics of envy, rather than the realities of fairness? Today we stand, in a bipartisan way, which may add to the consternation on the other side, and say, no taxation without respiration.”