[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10200]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      TIME TO REPEAL THE DEATH TAX

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, in the Democrats' not-ending attempt to 
create class warfare and their obsession of hate and vengeance towards 
the successful in our society, they forget the small business owner or 
the family farmer who has to pay as much as 50 percent of their entire 
value of their assets when they die.
  Just think about a small farm in south Georgia where, for 
generations, it has been passed down from generation to generation, 
from mom, dad, mom, dad, daughter and everything, and then the owner 
dies one day, and in order to pay for the farm, in order to pay for the 
inheritance, the kids have to sell. Then there is one more strip 
shopping center.
  Imagine one of the many new women entrepreneurs who owns a small 
business and builds it up over 20 years, and then has to plan her 
estate. She wants to pass it to your daughter, but guess what, the 
Democrats do not want her to. They want that to go to Uncle Sam. What 
does she do? Simply dies, but on the day that she dies, the Democrat 
party wants her to be visited not just by the undertaker but by the 
IRS.
  It is time to repeal the death tax.




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