HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 13
(By Delegates Trump, H. White, Kominar, Frederick, Cann,
Faircloth, Walters, Leggett, Azinger, Ellem, Anderson, Smirl,
Evans, Michael, Louisos, Stalnaker, Canterbury, Webb, L. Smith,
Schadler, Overington, Armstead, Harrison, Riggs, Romine, G.
White, Fletcher, Border, Hall, Carmichael and Ashley)
[Introduced March 7, 2001; referred to the
Committee on Rules.]
Requesting the West Virginia Congressional Delegation to support
and vote for the repeal of the death tax as proposed by
President George W. Bush.
Whereas, Women and minorities are very often owners of small
and medium-sized businesses, and the death tax prevents their
children from reaping the rewards of a lifetime trying to make a
better life; and
Whereas, Farmers often face losing their farms because the
federal government heavily taxes the estates of people who invested
most of their earnings back into their farms and had only a small
amount of liquid savings; and
Whereas, Employees suffer when they lose their jobs because
many small and medium-sized businesses are liquidated to pay death
taxes and because high capital costs depress the number of new
businesses that could offer them a job; and
Whereas, If the estate tax had been repealed in one thousand
nine hundred ninety-six, over the next nine years the United States
economy would have averaged as much as $11 billion per year in
extra output, and an average of 145,000 additional new jobs would
have been created; and
Whereas, Having passed the United States House of
Representatives by a vote of two hundred seventy-nine - thirty-six,
and having passed the United States Senate by a vote of fifty-nine
-thirty-nine, elimination of the death tax has wide bipartisan
support; therefore, be it
Resolved by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Legislature of the State of West Virginia requests
our elected representatives in the United States Congress to
support and vote for the repeal of the death tax as proposed by
President George W. Bush; and, be it
Further Resolved, That the Clerk of the House is directed to
forward a copy of this resolution to the members of the West
Virginia Congressional Delegation.
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