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      <![CDATA[The food tax cut is illegal as proposed. By rule, the combined state and local rate has to be evenly divisible by .25%.
        
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      <![CDATA[If I work my whole life and pay taxes on every dime I make who thinks they have a right to RE-TAX what I've left my children? That is ridiculous!
        
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      <![CDATA[Obviously in my last post I meant "don't vote for or advocate a higher estate tax exemption." And if this post is a repeat, oops.
        
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      <![CDATA[Obviously I meant "don't vote for or advocate a higher estate tax exemption" in my last post. Duh.
        
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      <![CDATA["At the end of the day, Min just does not like people who have managed to accumulate a million dollaars, really not so much these days."<br>
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Hey John, does Bill Gates and Warren Buffett not like people who have managed to accumulate a millon dollars? Because they have campaigned to NOT end the estate tax.
        
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      <![CDATA["So, she needs to re-think this along with that picture which gets on my last nerve." <br>
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Then my work here is done.
        
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      <![CDATA[""I can tell you a whole lot of people who spend less than half their year in Tennessee"<br>
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Exactly. They're called snow birds and they go to Florida because it's warmer, not because they want to invest in new businesses.<br>
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We got 8 years of Bush's tax cuts for the rich and we LOST 5 million manufacturing jobs.
        
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      <![CDATA["There's a whole lot of people who used to live in Tennessee who don't anymore because it's cheaper to die in Florida," Haslam said. "I can tell you a whole lot of people who spend less than half their year in Tennessee to avoid that estate tax specifically.
        
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      <![CDATA[So on "one hundred dollars" worth of food he wants to reduce our taxes by "twenty cents"?<br>
Thanks Gov Haslam bro! Now I can invest that twenty cents in credit default swaps.<br>
Ye gads, I feel rich already.<br>
If you wish to stimulate the economy more, ask: Steve Martin - How to get a mi-llllll-i-on dollars.<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[First, who is Tony Paredes? Am I  missing something?
        
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      <![CDATA[0.2%? Wow!
        
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      <![CDATA[Can we just raise gast's taxes? Raise his and his boyfriend's Tony Paredes, just to hear them howl.
        
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      <![CDATA[I say directly link any increases in the inheritance tax exemption to increases in the state's minimum wage.
        
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      <![CDATA[How else can we generate more Paris Hiltons?
        
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      <![CDATA[This is another matter on which people who aren't rich vote entirely against their interests. If you don't expect to be leaving anyone more than a million dollars, or inheriting more than a million dollars, DON'T vote for or advocate a higher estate tax.
        
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      <![CDATA[I agree with Min. Currently you can inherit a million dollars tax free.
        
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      <![CDATA[Since when is actively encouraging an American Aristocracy ok?
        
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      <![CDATA["Then what's fair about taking part of it when someone dies?"<br>
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What's fair about inheriting wealth, in the first place? Go out and make your own damn way in the world.
        
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      <![CDATA["They're taking capital and creating jobs other places."<br>
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Does the governor have any examples of people going to other states and creating jobs specifically because of the estate tax? I find this claim very dubious.
        
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      <![CDATA[I don't have a problem with making the state's estate tax laws agree with what the Federal government's are.<br>
        
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      <![CDATA[On the other hand, property and wealth transferred to an heir have generated taxes  from the beginning and will be taxed as long as the property and wealth continue to exist. Do property and wealth really need to be taxed again because of death?
        
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      <![CDATA[More racing for the bottom to please the rich.
        
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