Todd Tiahrt Quotes

Death just shouldn't be a taxable event.

Only in Washington would death be considered a taxable event.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

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

Death is the most convenient time to tax rich people.

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.

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

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

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.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Dying should not be a taxable event.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and ... tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise.

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

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

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

Death should not be a taxable event.

They have passed the big inheritance tax, and that gets you when you are gone. You used to could die and be able to beat taxes, but not now. The undertaker don't go over your body as carefully as the assessor does your accumilated assets, and he gets his before the undertaker. They have it on these big fortunes now where they pay as high as 60 to 70 percent of what they leave. That's mighty expensive dying when it runs into money like that, and you won't see 'em dropping off as casually as they have been.

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