Bush blew it.
Raising taxes,or instituting a new tax,is always a courageous thing to do.Just asked the “Republican” Governor of Connecticut who instituted a state income tax and was rewarded with a “Profiles In Courage Award” from the murdering,raping and crippling Kennedy family.
Swampers
catastrophic healthcare
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Which they had to repeal in a big fat hurry.
The only way to fix our issues is to cut entitlement and defense spending and raise taxes. As long as policymakers get seduced by Keynesian stimulus policies our deficit is going to get worse until we are gripped by debt service.
They STILL don’t get it.
Alan Simpson, of Simpson-Mazzoli, the 1986 amnesty that was supposed to have made another amnesty unnecessary, but in reality was written to make another amnesty inevitable as it was written to make it almost impossible to enforce.
The illegal alien inundation was intentional.
The Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) was necessary to get to that New World Order.
It must be remembered that beside Bush defeating himself by ‘read my lips’ etc, his personal demon, a vindictive enemy named Ross Perot was what kept Bush from defeating Clinton. Bush would have won handily without Perot.
And that raising of taxes gave us Bill Clinton.
Another “Simpson” didn’t have such a high opinion of George Bush....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXN6ACvCoE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jiBKWRWeg
SNL’s Dana Carvey’s George Bush on raising taxes many seasons ago...
Malcolm Wallop was the good Senator from Wyoming. Alan Simpson was a schmuck.
We have a two party system but some people on the other side are (purposefully?) wearing the wrong jersey.
We have the Conservatives, all of whom wear the GOP jersey; and
We have the democrat party that has the following wings:
-The radical wing. A wing that is radical today but whose members become mainstream tomorrow as a newer more radical wing is ever emerging thanks to our institutions of Higher Indoctrination.
-The moderate wing. See above, they were formally the radical wing.
-The conservative wing. Democrats wearing Republican jerseys who think that what they democrats believe isn’t so bad but that they would make the change to a statist, socialist state gradual and that they can manage it better. They also just want to fit in with the elites. Some of their members are:
The Bushes, Rove, Kasich, Romney, Ryan, Kristol, Flake, Collins, Corker, Collins, Stierwalt, Murkowski, the McCain’s, etc.
President Reagan had a good run of prosperity and then we had Bush I/Clinton/Bush II/Obama swamp. President Trump will probably get re-elected and then we are going to head back to the same garbage but much worse.
So he praised Bush for being a typical politician that lies to his constituents? Got it.
“He rose taxes”
Really? That’s how you eulogize someone?
How’s that balanced budget thing working out now? Hell, how was it working out in 1994?!
IT DIDNT.
A Democrat is never praised for lying to their base.
I wonder if Bush 41 felt real good about that deal on the night he nearly finished in 3rd place, November 1992? I wonder how happy the Democrats were that such a gullible, naive, easily rolled man had been elected President?
I have a brother who writes an obscure one-man blog. I’m guessing it is probably read by up to a dozen people.
He wrote some piece a few years back that was mildly critical of Alan Simpson for something or other he had done.
He was shocked to shortly afterwards get a call from Simpson, who berated him and claimed that the things he had written about him were inaccurate.
A former US Senator who is pushing 90 yrs. old was paranoid enough to track down the home phone number of a small-time blogger for criticizing him. That’s the kind of power trip the D.C. elite goes on I suppose.