Progressivity of the personal income tax schedule, including top marginal rates, bracket spread, and targeted credits (EITC-equivalents).
Taxation of capital income (dividends, capital gains, inheritance, wealth). Distinct from corporate rate.
Statutory and effective corporate tax rates, treatment of depreciation, and international competitiveness.
General government spending as share of GDP, excluding transfers already captured under fiscal.transfer_expansion to avoid double-counting.
Sequenced supply-side tax programme enacted under budget reconciliation with sunset provisions. The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2001 (EGTRRA) cut all statutory individual income-tax rates (top rate 39.6% to 35%), created a new 10% bottom bracket, doubled the child tax credit to $1,000, phased out the estate tax through 2010, and expanded IRA/401(k) limits. The Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act 2003 (JGTRRA) accelerated the 2001 rate cuts, cut the long-term capital gains rate to 15%, and reduced the top dividend rate to 15% (from ordinary-income treatment). Stated case: boost investment, move toward consumption-tax treatment of capital income, and return budget surpluses to households. Ten- year revenue cost roughly $1.7T (EGTRRA) + $350B (JGTRRA) on CBO scoring; combined with post-9/11 defence and Medicare Part D spending, converted the inherited surplus into structural deficit by mid-decade.
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.
Migrated from movements/us_bush_43_tax_cuts_2001_2003.yaml (action=MERGE). This entity is a single policy/legislation, not a coalition era; reclassified to policies/. Original movement file deleted.