so that families don't have the sell their businesses and farms when Mom and Dad die.

Being with my families helped me a lot. You know, my sister, my mom and my dad had been really great.

When Wal-Mart comes in anywhere, small businesses die out.

It just seems to me we do not want to destroy the businesses and farms.

There's the days when I go, 'I don't want it. I'm just not in the mood.' But it'll die down eventually, and I have also come to some peace with it. It's like, 'So how many pictures are they going to get of you walking on the beach?' That's got to get boring.

The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.