She also continues to work to reform the tax code, both in Washington and Albany, to lower taxes and create a flatter, fairer system that promotes job creation and economic growth.
Work to reform the tax code to lower taxes and create a flatter, fairer system that promotes job creation and economic growth.
Occurrences
Evidence
Stefanik said her campaign message included economic growth and creating jobs, adding that she wanted 'fundamental tax reform' and 'a flatter fairer simpler tax code.'
The House clerk records Roll Call 637 on passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act as passed on November 16, 2017. Stefanik was a House member at the time and the official roll-call record documents the vote on the tax-cut bill.
Stefanik said she 'proudly voted to extend President Trump's pro-growth policies in a critical tax reform package' and described it as legislation that bolsters working families, American competitiveness, and tax relief.
Her House issue page says she continues to advocate 'lowering taxes and fundamental tax reform' to create 'a flatter, fairer system' that increases opportunity, and says she promised never to vote for a tax hike.
Assessments
Stefanik promised as a 2014 federal House candidate to work for lower taxes and a flatter, fairer, pro-growth tax code. The major relevant federal outcome was the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which passed the House in November 2017 while she was serving in Congress, and her vote helped materially advance the bill. Because that passage occurred after the 2015-2017 House term for which the 2014 campaign promise was made, the timing is later_term. Later support for additional tax-relief legislation reinforces continued work but is not needed for the core finding.
Stefanik made the campaign promise in 2014 and, during the same congressional term after taking office, voted for the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, a major enacted federal tax package that lowered taxes and changed the tax code. That substantially advances the promise to work for tax reform and lower taxes. However, the broader promise of creating a flatter, fairer system that promotes job creation and economic growth is partly subjective and not fully demonstrated by the evidence, and her later statements show the goal remained ongoing rather than conclusively completed.