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  • Color is a legal fact, not an opinion. It shows — whether something is still in force, was reversed, or is contested in court — never whether it was good or bad.
  • Every number links to its source and to how strongly it can be tied to the action () — click any figure to see the full evidence.
  • Nothing here is scored, graded, or ranked. When two credible sources disagree, this archive shows both numbers instead of picking one.
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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
JUL 2025
Date of action
DEC 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 provisions permanent; individual provisions extended 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
9
Sourced estimates
8
3
3
The two headline numbers — $3.4T and $4.1T — are both CBO figures measuring different things (with and without interest, against different baselines). Citing either 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.