Sweeping, across the board, tax rate cuts worked to produce historic economic booms in the 1920s, the 1960s, and the 1980s, extending all the way to 2007, as noted above.
Those proposals include sweeping entitlement reforms across the board that over the long run would reduce federal spending by half as a percent of GDP from what it would be otherwise.
Some of these ideas have been modest, but plans such as Bush's call for a sweeping across-the-board cut in income tax rates, a massive national missile defense effort and fundamental restructuring of Social Security and Medicare represent the sort of bold departures from which his father recoiled.