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  • The estate tax has been a disaster. First of all it's double taxation, some people could even say it's triple taxation.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • The estate tax punishes years of hard work and robs families of part of their heritage by imposing a huge penalty on inheritance after death - a tax on money that has already been taxed.

  • We`re going to raise the estate tax for wealthy, very wealthy people.

    People   Estates   Taxes  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

  • Estate taxes make every one of us nervous. If there’s an owner who isn’t, he has his head in the sand.

    Nervous   Sand   Owners  
  • The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.

    "Global Public Square" with Fareed Zakaria, globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com. November 2, 2008.
  • That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a great city, where children may play and old people sit in the sun, are of far more value to the inhabitants than real estate taxes and contractors' greed.

    Ilka Chase (1967). “Fresh from the Laundry”
  • I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

    Jobs   Want   Rich  
    "Reps. Paul Ryan, Chris Van Hollen Talk Policy, Politics; Justice Stephen Breyer on New Book". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. December 12, 2010.
  • [The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins. Having rolled back the landmark economic reforms of the sixties (the war on poverty) and those of the thirties (labor law, agricultural price supports, banking regulation), its leaders now turn their guns on the accomplishments of the earliest years of progressivism (Woodrow Wilson's estate tax; Theodore Roosevelt's anti-trust measures). With a little more effort, the backlash may well repeal the entire twentieth century.

    Prayer   War   School  
    "What's the Matter with Kansas?". Book by Thomas Frank, 2004.
  • The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

    Wisdom   Party   Men  
    Herbert Hoover (1938). “Addresses upon the American road”
  • Suggestion of the Communist Manifesto was 'abolition of all right of inheritance.' Looking backward upon the past history of estate taxes, we have to realize that they more and more have approached the goal set by Marx. Estate taxes of the height they have already attained for the upper brackets are no longer to be qualified as taxes. They are measures of expropriation.

    Past   Goal   Suggestions  
  • In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

    Death   Money   Business  
    Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy, 13 Nov. 1789
  • Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

    Dad   Estates   Taxes  
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