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On the recordMay 9, 2001
An important point to remember is that the death tax which the gentleman is referring to, which is the tax whereby at the occasion of a person's death the government comes in and confiscates up to 55 percent of everything that person has left over, let us step back and remember that whatever a person has left over is left over after multiple layers of taxation were already paid.
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Pat Toomey
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Discussing the implications of the estate tax during a floor speech.

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