Dennis Hastert Quotes

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

The bottom line is that the death tax is a tax on the economy because it slows economic growth.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

We do not believe that death should be a taxable event.

Death should not be a taxable event.

But we need to quit taxing people upon death. No taxation without respiration.

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.

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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.

In six short years, small business owners and family farmers will once again be assessed a tax on the value of their property at the time of their death, despite having paid taxes throughout their lifetime.

The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.

Estate taxes are the government's way of making up for all the cheating you did on income taxes

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

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.

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral.

An increase in the State inheritance tax, steeply graduated and applying to all property in the State regardless of where the owner may reside.

“Death Taxes” are not levied on the dead, who have passed beyond reach of the IRS, but on the heirs who did nothing to earn the money …

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

The entire American concept of the 'family business' is put at risk by the death tax.

Many countries, even socialist Sweden and former communist Russia, have done away with their death taxes. They found the confiscation of wealth at death to be counterproductive.

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

I had nothing to do with death panels. I thought it was a horrible phrase about end of life. I didn't think it was accurate, and I was - I've always been opposed to it. The reason why I stood behind that phrase "death tax" for so many years is because the only time that you could pay that tax, the only time, is on the death of a relative. And that's what makes it a death tax. You have to be accurate.

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.

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.