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"An Evening with Ann Coulter," Saturday, September 16, 2006 beginning at 6:00 p.m. at the Cobb Galleria Centre * Two Galleria Parkway * Atlanta, GA 30339. Individual reservations are $65 per person. Make your check payable to Christian Coalition of Georgia and mail to 8975 Roswell Road, Atlanta, GA 30350. Or you can pay online using our secure server PayPal. Be sure to state your donation is for the event. Funds raised from this event will go toward our 2006 Voter Guide effort. Donations to the Christian Coalition of Georgia are not tax deductible.

In a recent interview with Matt Lauer on the Today Show (the same Matt Lauer who broke out laughing last year when comedian Al Franken said Karl Rove and Lewis Libby should be executed for treason - did not find any humor in Coulter's blockbuster new book "Godless: The Church of Liberalism." )

Lauer noted Ann's statement that "To a liberal 2,200 military deaths in the entire course of the war in Iraq is unconscionable but 1.3 million aborted babies in America every year is something to celebrate."

Lauer: "You think people celebrate..."

Coulter: "They manifestly do. They are huge rallies for it. That is the one issue that's more important to the Democratic party than any other. I mean Bill Clinton, the last..."

Lauer: "Do you think they celebrate the right to choose or, or the actual abortion?"

Coulter: "The last candidate the Democrats got into the White House was Bill Clinton. I, I take that as a fair assessment of whom the Democrats will choose as their representative. Bill Clinton sold out every single special interest group. The criminal rights group, the welfare bureaucrats. The one group he would not stand up to were the abortion ladies. Vetoing bans on partial birth, a gruesome prcedure passed by overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate. Twice, Clinton vetoed that. That tells you what the Democratic party thinks about abortion."

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Once again a majority of Democrats and two Republicans deny American's the right to leave their families their hard-earned dollars upon death without the Federal Government getting a lion's share of their estate. It is unconscionable and shameful.

Republicans voting against the bill were Chafee(RI) and Voinovich (OH) and Democrats voting for the bill were Baucus (MT), Ben Nelson (NE) and Bill Nelson (FL).

CHAMBLISS DISAPPOINTED WITH SENATE FAILURE TO PERMANENTLY REPEAL THE DEATH TAX

Repeal would benefit families, small businesses, and family farmers

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., today expressed disappointment with the failure of the U.S. Senate to move toward consideration of the Death Tax Repeal Permanency bill. 60 votes were needed to move debate forward; however, the measure failed 57-41. Chambliss has been a strong supporter of repealing the federal death tax during his 12 years in Congress.

"The death tax is an unnecessary, burdensome taxation on American families, small businesses, and family farmers, and I think it is simply wrong that the federal government seeks to tax individuals and their possessions at the time of their death," said Chambliss.

"This is a basic matter of fairness, and folks should be able to plan for their future without worrying about the death tax. People work hard their entire life in hopes of passing their family business or farm on to their children and grandchildren. Doing so is something Americans throughout our history have worked toward for many years. I strongly believe the death tax needs to be permanently repealed," Chambliss added.

Background

Five years ago Congress enacted a phase-out of the federal estate tax – or "death" tax – as part of the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, with its complete repeal scheduled to occur in 2010. However, due to Democrat opposition to the 2001 tax relief bill, the repeal is only temporary; the death tax will be resurrected in 2011 at a tax rate of 55 percent after a $1 million exemption.

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Isakson Voices Disappointment Over Senate’s Failure to Eliminate Death Tax

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) today expressed disappointment when the Senate refused to proceed with debate and allow an up-or-down vote on permanently repealing the estate tax, also known as the "death tax." The procedural vote failed 57 to 41. Senate rules required 60 votes to proceed, ending consideration of the legislation for now.

"We charge people income tax when they earn income. With what is left they make investments, and then as those investments pay dividends or pay income, we tax that. Then we say when you die we want half of that asset," Isakson said. "It is wrong. It is wrong for individuals, it is wrong for family farmers, it is wrong for landowners and it is wrong for America."

The President’s 2001 tax package phased out the estate tax over ten years. Unfortunately, the legislation contained a sunset provision that reinstated the tax at the end of that period. This makes long-term estate planning and retirement planning virtually impossible, since the tax code changes so radically at the end of the ten-year period.

"When the tragedy of death comes, family members are immediately confronted with one of the most punitive and confiscatory taxes that has ever been devised in the history of taxation," Isakson said. "A full repeal of the estate tax will let our hard-working taxpayers pass along their savings to their children and grandchildren tax-free. That’s good for families and small businesses, and it’s good for our economy. I will continue to do everything I can to see that we take action and repeal the death tax permanently."