Kit Bond Quotes

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

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.

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.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

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.

I hope that the Senate acts quickly to pass this legislation so that Americans will no longer worry about having to sell the family farm or business to pay taxes after the death of a loved one.

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

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.

It is simply unfair for the Internal Revenue Service to lay claim to the bulk of a small business or farm when a death occurs. Federal tax policy should instead be geared toward helping the next generation keep these family-owned operations alive.

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.

Eliminating the death tax is particularly important for the many small business owners and family farmers that call Central Washington home.

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.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

Tax policy is not about compassion.

And my response is 70,000 people in the state of Maine that paid income tax in 2011 will not be paying income tax in 2012.

I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax.

The truth is, no one pays more tax than they have to.

I'm not for raising taxes on anyone - period.

When the federal government promises no new taxes, they're promising no new federal taxes.

Taxes are not something that lends to experimentation. You want to go slow, you could knock the whole economy into a cocked hat with experimentation.

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

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

The Enterprise Value Tax is unprecedented, punitive, and has no justification in the tax code.