"When you stop to think about those of us who may be subjected to this tax as to why this is happening,
you start off with the very first proposition being that it is because we are Americans. This tax would not be any concern whatsoever if we have been born in West Africa somewhere.
We wouldn’t have
had any chance to have the comfort and to generate the wealth and the opportunity to pass along some part of that wealth to our children
but for having been born in this country, a place where markets are stable, where laws are enforced, where tomorrow’s business is predictable, that you can have confidence that what you own can be sold and that people will maintain their obligations and their purchase arrangements."