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Any two entries, on identical fields, in identical space. Neither column is privileged — the left slot and the right slot render the same way, and the fields are the same for a tax law as for a war. This is how the archive supports comparison without a scoring system: put the records beside each other and let the reader do the weighing.

Left entry
Right entry
One Big Beautiful Bill Act
In force
Tax Cuts and Jobs Act
In force
Date of action
July 4, 2025
Date of action
December 22, 2017
Domain
Taxes & budget
Domain
Taxes & budget
Unit
Initiative
Unit
Initiative
In force
In force
Status
In force; major provisions phasing in through 2028
Status
Corporate and individual provisions both made permanent by OBBBA in 2025
Verified as of
August 2026
Verified as of
August 2026
Effect claims
3
Effect claims
3
Direct
Direct
Claims marked disputed
0
Claims marked disputed
0
Sourced estimates
10
Sourced estimates
8
6
4
The headline numbers — $3.4T, $4.1T, and $4.7T — are all CBO figures measuring different things (without interest, with interest, and with interest plus macroeconomic feedback, on different windows). Citing any one of them alone without saying which is a common source of bad-faith argument.
Whether the corporate cut "paid for itself" is settled: no nonpartisan scorekeeper found that it did. Whether the distribution was fair is a value judgment this archive does not make.
Not flagged provisional.
Not flagged provisional.
What this view deliberately does not do
It does not declare a winner, total a score, or order the two entries. Comparing a tariff to a judicial appointment requires a common unit of value, and there isn’t one — any number this view produced would be a preference wearing a decimal point.
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