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Eliminating the Death Tax will continue to restore consumer confidence, spur capital investment, and create new jobs which are critical components of economic growth, particularly within the small business community. -- Howard Coble
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral. -- Jon Kyl
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses. -- Kit Bond
The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth. -- Todd Tiahrt
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
Congress must also enact pro-growth policies that encourage the economy to expand: like making tax relief permanent and repealing the death tax. -- Michael Steele
I'd like to give zero out capital gains tax and zero out the dividends tax, zero out alternative minimum tax, and zero out the death tax. -- Michele Bachmann
The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses. -- Mac Thornberry
My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building. -- Todd Tiahrt
With my support, the House of Representatives recently voted to permanently repeal the death tax so that family farms and businesses can be passed down to children and grandchildren. -- Doc Hastings
Unfortunately, actions taken by the Senate ensured that relief from the death tax would only be temporary and that it would come back to life at the full rate again in 2011. -- Doc Hastings
The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy. -- Kit Bond
The death tax causes one-third of all family-owned small businesses to liquidate after the death of the owner. It is also an unfair tax because the assets have already been taxed once at their income level. -- Ric Keller
Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans. -- Todd Tiahrt
Additionally, this tax forces family businesses to invest in Uncle Sam rather than the economy. When families are forced to repurchase businesses because of the death tax, that means less money is being invested in new jobs and capital expansion. -- Todd Tiahrt
If we don't act now, the death tax will come back in just a few years. Under current law the death tax is phased out in 2010 but comes back in full force in 2011. That is a ridiculous and untenable policy. -- Kit Bond
The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation. -- Jennifer Dunn
Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people. -- David Lloyd George
The only people helped by the death tax are lawyers, accountants, and IRS agents. -- Bob Schaffer
The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses. -- Kit Bond
Death is the tax the soul has to pay for having a name and a form -- Muhammad Ali
It may be that the carbon tax is the final chapter in the strange death of Labor Australia. -- Richard Flanagan
I firmly believe the death tax is good for people from all walks of life all throughout our society. -- George W. Bush
Self-realization: No ego, no desires, no weight problems, no tax forms, no death to die, no life to live. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
And they all lived happily ever after (barring death, divorce, arrest for tax fraud, that incident with the pool boy...) -- Sarah Rees Brennan
The only reason people lock their car doors when Obama walks by is they are afraid he'll tax them to death . . . -- James Woods
Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home. -- Doc Hastings
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations. -- Christopher Bond
Spending our tax dollars on actually preventing crimes, instead of pursuing death sentences after they've already been committed, will assure us we will have fewer victims. -- Gil Garcetti
Mr. Vice President, in all due respect, it is-I'm not sure 80 percent of the people get the death tax. I know this: 100 percent will get it if I'm the president. -- George W. Bush

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