April 28, 2011 10:07 PM UTC

Tell Us How You Really Feel, Don Beezley

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• by: Colorado Pols

As the Durango Herald’s Joe Hanel reports–don’t mince words, now!

Colorado has not received money from estate taxes since 2004, but Republicans are still pushing a bill to repeal the estate tax law.

Congress has suspended the federal estate tax – which Republicans have dubbed the “death tax” – until at least 2013. But the lack of any real money did not keep a state House committee from a heated and colorful discussion Wednesday.

The sponsor, Rep. Mark Barker, calls his bill a message to Congress to repeal the federal estate tax permanently…Barker’s bill would have Colorado decline its payment from the federal government. If it passes and the estate tax goes back into effect, it would not cut taxes for any Coloradan, because the federal government simply would keep Colorado’s share.

…Broomfield Republican Don Beezley said he thinks the estate tax mostly hits family businesses.

“There’s this bizarrely perverse idea that if somebody’s worth $5 million or $10 million or $100 million, they’re somehow in the backyard rolling around in C-notes snorting coke or something. If they’re a Hollywood liberal, that may be the case. But the fact is the majority of these are small businesses,” Beezley said. [Pols emphasis]

A similarly over-the-top poll follows.

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