Political Quotes

“I am the first person in my family to ever graduate college, I do not have a fortune. I admire the fact that he wants to construct life for his children a certain way, but this gentleman is making decisions for millions of Americans, let him make his own decision. What I would like to have is a decision made up here that empowers people that if they want to give money to the church instead of the government they can. We collect less than 2 percent from the death tax in this country, and to get that 2 percent here is what you lose: You lose family farms in my district in droves because people are land rich on paper and cash poor. You lose the small business that cannot go to the next generation to get less than 2 percent to monkey with the money up here. Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy. They want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go. Let us start a new century with a Tax Code that brings out the best in the American people not the worst. To get 2 percent of the money, we have to ruin a lot of families and that is unnecessary.”