04/23/2018
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"It seems to me that wealthy taxpayers have found ways to largely avoid the estate and gift taxes through complex shelters and trusts."
"If you are a billionaire in an affluent suburb somewhere, to a great extent, if you have good accountants and good lawyers, you can pay what you want when you want to, and often hardly anything at all..."
"That puts this committee in the driver's seat when it comes to job-creating legislation that addresses head-on the existential challenge of the climate crisis."
"The Finance Committee meets this morning for its first hearing on the climate crisis since 2009."