MASON-DIXON POLL & QUOTES FROM OTHER LEGISLATORS/OFFICIALS

MASON-DIXON POLL (625 registered voters, +/- 4 percent): 75 percent back eliminating estate tax/14 percent opposed

KILGORE: "I know the backbreaking effort it takes to succeed in this business," said Kilgore, who grew up on a tobacco farm in southwest Virginia. ... As long as we have this tax on the books, it will unweave the structure of family farms, ... Its time we give the death penalty to the death tax." -- Daily Press, Dec. 2, speaking to 700 farmers at the Virginia Farm Bureau Federation meeting in Williamsburg.

HANGER: "On the tax reduction side, we need to repeal the estate tax and finish repealing the car tax and more adequately fund local services to reduce pressure on real estate taxes and fees." - Daily Press, Dec. 22

Del. Phillip Hamilton said he supports cutting the estate tax
- Daily Press, Dec. 22