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PolitiFact Ohio explored whether Dave Thomas fled to Florida to avoid Ohio's estate tax.
Ohio state Rep. Jay Hottinger, a leader of the drive to repeal the state's estate taxes, didn't have numbers to cite when he claimed that a "shockingly high number of Ohioans leave because of the tax."
But he did cite an example: "Dave Thomas left the state literally on his deathbed to avoid the estate tax," Hottinger said of the founder of the Wendy's chain.
PolitiFact Ohio put that to the Truth-O-Meter and found the exit wasn't quite so hasty.
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