I will continue to support these measures and others that seek to eliminate unfair taxes that only prevent economic growth, savings and job creation.
Continue supporting efforts to eliminate unfair taxes, including the marriage penalty and the death tax.
Occurrences
Evidence
Congress.gov shows Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart introduced H.R. 411 on January 11, 2007. The bill summary says it would exempt provisions relating to child tax credit, marriage penalty relief, repeal of the estate tax, and higher-education deductions from the 2010 sunset, while making those tax benefits permanent.
Congress.gov lists Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart as a cosponsor of H.R. 1301, the Death Tax Repeal Act, with a cosponsorship date of February 13, 2025.
The Congressional Record index for Mario Diaz-Balart includes tax-related cosponsorships such as 'Taxation: accelerate elimination of the marriage penalty' and other tax-cut measures, showing active legislative support for ending the marriage penalty.
The Congress.gov cosponsors page for H.R. 1301 lists Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart as a cosponsor on 02/13/2025.
Congress.gov shows Diaz-Balart sponsored H.R. 411 in the 110th Congress, a bill whose title and official action relate to marriage-penalty relief and estate-tax repeal permanence.
Assessments
The promise was framed as continuing to support efforts to eliminate specific taxes, not guaranteeing final repeal. Diaz-Balart materially advanced the promised policy in federal office by sponsoring H.R. 411 in 2007 to make marriage-penalty relief and estate-tax repeal permanent, with additional tax-related cosponsorship activity, and later cosponsored H.R. 1301, the Death Tax Repeal Act, in 2025. Those actions directly match the promised support within his congressional service, so the commitment is delivered on an effort/support basis even though full permanent elimination was not enacted solely through these measures.
The promise was to continue supporting efforts to eliminate unfair taxes, specifically including the marriage penalty and death tax, rather than to singlehandedly enact repeal. The evidence shows Diaz-Balart introduced or cosponsored legislation addressing both issues, including H.R. 411 for marriage-penalty relief and estate-tax repeal permanence, and later cosponsorship of the Death Tax Repeal Act. That matches the promised action of continued support through legislative activity.