“Noem says the lessons she learned from her Dad are still with her today, especially when he told her, “Kristi, we don’t complain about things. We fix ’em.” And it was ultimately those words that compelled her to enter politics and try to “fix” what she considered the most unfair tax that nearly bankrupted her family’s farm after her father passed, the so-called “death tax. It took me 10 years to pay off those taxes and it made me angry. So I just started showing up at meetings and I felt that if I was upset by this law, that was on the books, then I needed to do something about it,” she recalled.” – Faithwire, June 29, 2022