HM 1103

1	House Memorial
2	A memorial to the Congress of the United States, urging
3	Congress to support, work to pass, and vote for the
4	immediate and permanent repeal of the death tax.
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6	WHEREAS, under tax relief legislation passed in 2001, the
7	death tax was temporarily phased out but not permanently
8	eliminated, and
9	WHEREAS, farmers and other small business owners will face
10	losing their farms and businesses if the Federal Government
11	resumes the heavy taxation of citizens at death, and
12	WHEREAS, the death tax is particularly damaging to families
13	who are trying to improve their economic conditions and
14	accumulate wealth for the first time, and
15	WHEREAS, employees suffer layoffs when small and medium
16	businesses are liquidated to pay death taxes, and
17	WHEREAS, if the death tax had been repealed in 1996, the
18	United States economy would have realized billions of dollars
19	each year in extra output, and an estimated 145,000 additional
20	new jobs would have been created, and
21	WHEREAS, having repeatedly passed in the United States
22	House of Representatives and Senate, repeal of the death tax
23	holds wide bipartisan support, NOW, THEREFORE,
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25	Be It Resolved by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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27	That the Legislature of the State of Florida requests the
28	United States Congress to support, work to pass, and vote for
29	the immediate and permanent repeal of the death tax.
30	BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
31	dispatched to the President of the United States, to the
32	President of the United States Senate, to the Speaker of the
33	United States House of Representatives, and to each member of
34	the Florida delegation to the United States Congress.

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