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Just dying should not be a reason for taxes.

Instead of raising taxes as some would insist, we need to reduce waste and inefficiency in government.

The death tax should be completely and permanently repealed now in order to make the Tax Code fairer and simpler and to eliminate the harmful drag this tax has on the economy.

We want taxpayers, not tax wasters.

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.

We have a spending problem, not a taxing problem. The less we spend, the more jobs we have the potential to create.

If I tax them, in fact, I'm not taxing the capitalists, I am taxing the people who have saved, trusted. It was very controversial, those sorts of things. But finally, it worked out.

We need to end permanently the tax that punishes American values of savings and investment and of building small businesses and family farms and ranches.

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.