If no estate tax is imposed, capital gains taxes can be…

Democrats who see virtue in the estate tax are doing the equivalent of aborting future enterprises. They deprive businesses of oxygen with their support…

— Amity Shlaes

The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other…

— Michael Bloomberg

“So we call it “the estate tax,” which sounds very adult and respectable and vaguely French Revolution. Nobody really thinks of themselves has owning…

— Andrew Heaton

Many people are smart enough to know how to manage themselves out of the estate tax.

— Gary Cohn

I do not believe that the top rate should be lowered for individuals who are making more than $1 million a year. I don't…

— Susan Collins

I don't like the repeal of the estate tax.

— Stanley Druckenmiller

“When you get rid of the estate tax,” he said, “you’re basically handing over command of the country’s resources to people who didn’t earn…

— Barack Obama

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

— Bill Gates

Every dollar of tax imposed on our exchanges in the shape of duties impairs, to that extent, our capacity to meet the severe competition…

— John C. Calhoun

It was not until the Abraham Lincoln administration that an income tax was imposed on Americans. Its stated purpose was to finance the war,…

— Walter E. Williams

The Business Profits Tax, which is imposed on in-state businesses, we need to impose the same thing on out-of-state businesses, because the way the…

— Craig Benson

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government…

— Alan Keyes

The wealth in many large estates has never been taxed because it is largely in the form of unrealized - therefore untaxed - capital…

— Richard Thaler

If we completely repealed the estate tax, it would provide an estimated $32 billion tax break for the Walton family - the founders of Wal-Mart.

— Bernie Sanders

On the estate tax, if you look at the couple of groups who are the biggest advocates for repealing the estate tax, it really…

— Gary Cohn