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NFIB member to
Congress: Override the death tax
veto
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Release Date:
09/07/00
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Steve Cahill, a project
manager for a small construction company, today
appeared at a Capitol Hill news conference to
urge the U.S. House of Representatives to
override President Clinton's veto of legislation
repealing the death tax on small, family-owned
businesses. A vote is expected
today.
Cahill is a project manager and
construction supervisor at Abby Construction
Company, a small business in Fredericksburg,
Va., that employs between 15 and 20 people. Abby
Construction specializes in renovation and
remodeling, and was founded 15 years ago on a
shoestring budget by owner Mike Huie with the
renovation of an old church.
If the owner
of our company were to die, Abby Construction
Company would be forced to sell tools, equipment
and trucks in order to pay the death-tax bill,
Cahill said at today's news conference. It's a
simple concept: no tools, no equipment and no
trucks left to work our remodeling and
restoration jobs means no more employment for
nearly twenty hard-working individuals and
families.
Cahill and the Abby
Construction Company are the most recent
small-business voices to join the chorus of
middle-income citizens who strongly support a
repeal of the unfair death tax. The President
turned a deaf ear to the concerns of small
businesses like Abby Construction when he vetoed
bipartisan death-tax-repeal legislation last
week. NFIB has called the President's veto a
stab in the heart of America's small business
owners.
Earlier this week, NFIB announced
that today's expected vote will be scored as an
official Key Vote for small business, which
means it will be listed on the organization's
legislative scorecard and help determine who
receives its Guardian of Small Business Awards
in two weeks.
"Members of Congress who
were part of the bipartisan veto-proof majority
that passed this legislation earlier this year
have a big decision to make today," said NFIB
Senior Vice President Dan Danner. "Are they
going to stand with the small businesses in
their districts, 89 percent of whom support the
repeal of the death tax, or are they going to
stand with the Clinton-Gore administration?"
9.07.00
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