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State of South Dakota
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SEVENTY-FOURTH
SESSION
LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY, 1999 |
| 608C0899 |
SENATE COMMEMORATION
NO.
14
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| Introduced by: Senators Staggers, Benson, Bogue, Dennert, Drake, Dunn (Rebecca), Duxbury, Flowers, Hutmacher, Kleven, Kloucek, Lange, Lawler, Madden, Moore, Munson (David), Reedy, Shoener, Symens, Valandra, and Whiting and Representatives Windhorst, Apa, Cerny, Chicoine, Fryslie, Hanson, Klaudt, Michels, Monroe, Napoli, Pummel, Slaughter, Wetz, Wudel, and Young |
A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION,
Recognizing and commending Gladys Babcock of
Creighton, South Dakota, and Glenda Knapp of Wall, South Dakota, for their outstanding
leadership in the statewide petition drive to abolish the South Dakota inheritance tax.
WHEREAS,
South Dakota has had an inheritance tax since 1915, and is one of sixteen states
with an inheritance tax; and
WHEREAS,
the inheritance tax has caused untold suffering due to the breakup of family
farms and family businesses; and
WHEREAS,
the inheritance tax is collected from grieving sons and daughters during a time
of extreme suffering and misery; and
WHEREAS,
the inheritance tax is an additional tax on the hard-earned fruits of labor; and
WHEREAS,
the inheritance tax is opposed by the citizens of South Dakota:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED,
by the Seventy-fourth Legislature of
the State of South Dakota, that Gladys Babcock and Glenda Knapp be hereby honored for their
heroic efforts to abolish South Dakota's inheritance tax.
