We need to talk to our children after they get home from school, every night at the dinner table, on weekends to find out what they are thinking, what they are feeling. The solution is found with our children.

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Today, 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.

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Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets, ... No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.

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This is not a ripple effect. This is a tsunami.

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[That announcement came on the heels of 30,000 layoffs just the day before at aircraft maker Boeing, which expects deliveries to fall seven percent this year, and more than 20 percent in 2002.] This is not a ripple effect, ... This is a tsunami.

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It is crucial for us to help existing companies in the county grow and expand. It is important to bring new ones in but it is also very important to work with existing ones. About 60 to 80 percent of our growth comes from existing businesses.

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So that families don't have the sell their businesses and farms when Mom and Dad die.

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Americans spend much of their adult lives paying taxes in various forms. We should end this practice of paying a tax that is triggered only by debt.

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It will grow back.

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