"What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge."
"Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go."
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Source: Estate Tax Debate. PBS NewsHour with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 8, 2000.
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