General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Taxation of capital income (dividends, capital gains, inheritance, wealth). Distinct from corporate rate.
Size of cash and near-cash transfer programmes (unemployment benefits, means-tested assistance, universal child benefits). Architecturally distinct from forced-saving schemes — see condition welfare_architecture.
P.L. 105-33 of 5 August 1997. Combined Medicare provider-payment growth curbs (~$115B five-year), SCHIP creation for children (Title XXI of Social Security Act), capital-gains rate reduction to 20% top, and discretionary spending caps. Projected first balanced federal budget since 1969; actual surplus achieved FY1998 ($69B) through FY2001.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.