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Gov. Noem slams Biden’s ‘devastating’ death tax on middle class - YouTube
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texas will build a border
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wall in our state to help secure our
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border
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homes are being invaded neighborhoods
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are dangerous and
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people are being threatened on a daily
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basis
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i told you that texas would step up and
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respond
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today we begin that response
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the border crisis reaching a boiling
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point as texas governor abbott
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vows to protect his state and build a
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wall
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now other states are stepping up to help
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by sending their own law enforcement
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officers to
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the border south to governor south
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dakota governor christie gnome joins us
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now to react good morning governor glad
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to have you with us
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good morning it's great to be with you
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so we have seen
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several states begin to answer the call
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of governor greg abbott of texas asking
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for help from other states to deal with
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this what should be a federal issue
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in lieu of federal help other states are
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stepping out i believe we've seen
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florida
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has made a commitment to help out in
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texas tell us what's happening in south
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dakota will you guys be able to
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also offer help uh with the border
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crisis
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well securing that border is a national
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security issue and we in south dakota
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are evaluating that
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we'd love to help and we're working
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through that process to see if that's
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something that we could make possible
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governor i want to move to another topic
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that i think
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is very personal to you a lot of
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middle-income families right now are
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unhappy with
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the proposal that the biden
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administration has for a death tax
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saying that it would their kids
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with bills and i know that's a story
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that hits home
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for you i'd like to see if you could
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just talk to us a little bit about what
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happened in your family and
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and why that issue was so important and
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actually was a little bit of the reason
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why you want to get into politics
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well people ask me that all the time
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rachel why i got involved in government
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and politics because
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up until just about 10 12 years ago i
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was a farmer and a rancher
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but it was because of the experience
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that i went through when i was in
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college
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it was back in 1994 my dad was killed in
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an accident
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on our farm in ranch he was only 49
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years old at the time
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and our family got hit hard by death
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taxes it was devastating for us
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i had lost my dad it was a time of
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tragedy he was my best friend
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and then suddenly we found out from the
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irs that we owed
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hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of
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thousands of dollars that
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we didn't have we had land machinery and
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cattle
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but we didn't have any money in the bank
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and so it made me angry
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i started showing up at meetings talking
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about policy got passionate about tax
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reform
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it took us 10 years to pay off those
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taxes and we had to figure out a way to
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make more money off the assets that we
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had but
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it was hard and so i think that story's
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powerful because the death tax
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is the only place in our tax code where
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we double tax someone
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and people who are wealthy who have a
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lot of money figure out ways to hire
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enough attorneys to get around it most
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of the time it's those who get surprised
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by a tragedy
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or don't have money to do the kind of
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estate planning that wealthy people do
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that end up getting hit the hardest so i
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was thankful to be in congress when
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president trump took on tax reform
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we made it better i always had the bill
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to completely repeal the tax because it
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is so unfair
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but what president biden has proposed
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will be devastating
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it'll be devastating to families and
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small business owners especially those
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that
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that are trying to make ends meet today
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if we had owned a gas station
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we would have been forced to sell our
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family business in order to pay those
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taxes or if we had
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you know a small restaurant or motel we
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would have had to sell in order to pay
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luckily we had land
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we could take a mortgage out on and and
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get debt on in order to go secure
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financing and had some people help us go
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out on a limb for a bunch of kids and a
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mom who was devastated but if that
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hadn't happened here in south dakota
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we would have jeopardized our family
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business too well this is something that
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could be
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increased death taxes is a possibility
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under what joe biden wants to propose
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what is the philosophy of the left that
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believes that ultimately
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we should be taxing the wealth that
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parents accumulate because they want to
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pass it to the next generation
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well they're not telling the truth folks
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work hard every single day and they pay
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their taxes
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these folks that have any kind of an
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asset under their name
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they may own something that they've
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worked for their entire life
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and that they want to give their kids a
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start with but but you're taxing it
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again
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it's a double tax at the time of death
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that really cripples their ability to
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pass on and keep that business going
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so this is what liberals want to do
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is is take anything that they have and
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pull it into the government
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and use it and grow government take more
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control over people's lives they're
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using fear to do it
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they're using manipulation to push that
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agenda and it ends up in resulting in a
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country that has socialist
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policies and that is where this is going
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and it starts with taxes it starts with
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control
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and the death tax and estate tax is
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exactly a good example of how that
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begins
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well i know the answer to that pete the
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answer to why or how the left
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rationalizes the death tax is they think
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they are simply taxing
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the wealthy they are taxing unearned
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income now governor noam you're pointing
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out first of all the very particular
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problem of your situation people that
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are land rich and cash poor
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and that hits very hard there's also the
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philosophical issue which you're right
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it's a double taxation
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but how do you answer their argument to
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pete's question they will say
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it's simply taxing the wealthy
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redistricting and and it's unearned
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income anyway you didn't do anything to
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earn that so how do you respond to
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someone making that argument to you
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i tell my story i tell the story of my
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neighbors the families around me that
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are
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small business owners have a little
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dress shop on main street have a little
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bit of equity in it
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have a building that they fought their
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whole life to pay for
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and want to hang on to and then they
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have a death a tragedy
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and they won't have the ability to keep
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it because of the taxes they owe the
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federal government
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so we as republicans as conservatives
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often use statistics and
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data and policies but it's the stories
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that are powerful and they're real and
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they're everywhere across this country
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of where an unfair burden from the
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government came in
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took away belongings that someone has
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worked hard for and earned
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and and took it from them at a very
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difficult time
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and used it to promote their agenda and
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promote a bigger
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government that has more control over
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their lives
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governor your story is so powerful if
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people haven't heard it google it
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read about it because it reads like a
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hallmark movie what you did
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to help your family the sacrifices you
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made and had to make
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in order to make you know keep the land
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in your family's um
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name and not give it over to the
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government who did nothing um
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uh to earn that money so it reads your
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story it's fascinating thanks a lot for
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joining us this morning i knew there was
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no one better
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to talk about the death tax than you
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governor oh
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well i tell you what it's something that
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was very difficult for our entire family
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we had an incredible state community
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that helped us and we wouldn't be
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here on our land today if it wasn't for
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them thank you governor christine
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thank you so much thank you
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