Political Quotes

“I rise today to address the tax that is one of the most obscene, unfair, and immoral of all taxes. The estate tax, or what is commonly referred to as the death tax, since it is generally triggered only by one's removal from productive life, has outlived its usefulness. Later this week, this body will be voting on legislation to eliminate the death tax, and I think it is past time to bury the death tax once and for all. The U.S. House of Representatives is once again poised to vote on repealing the federal death tax. In view of the strong support that death tax repeal receives from the general public, the House debate should be firmly grounded in what an increasingly large percentage of voters already know: Death taxes adversely affect many times the number of people who pay the tax collector. Death taxes most often burden the very people that tax policy is intended to help. For example: Women and minorities are very often owners of small and medium-sized businesses.”