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Pat Toomey: “An important point to remember is that the death tax which the gentleman is referring to, which is the tax whereby at…”

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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