The Bush Tax Betrayal

Townhall ^ | 12/11/18 | Stephen Moore

[Timocrat]

We could eliminate 10% of the government TOMORROW and no one will notice.

You're wrong. People would be a lot happier and be able to get a lot more done.

[ataDude]

I remember the 1989 Import Gun ban.

[from occupied ga]

remember the 1989 Import Gun ban

Me too - and ammunition was affected too. I think I already said this, but both Bushs had more in common with the Clintons than they did with the Republican electorate

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

That lie brought the Democrat Party back from the brink of extinction.

It wasn’t the lie, it was the betrayal which made it a lie. No good could possibly have come of that tax increase. Either it decreased the deficit, or it didn’t. If it didn’t, he had harmed the Republican brand by a bad decision as well as a betrayal of a promise. If it did, Reaganomics would get blamed - and the Democrats, as you say, brought back from the brink.

He has much to answer for.

For sure I thought far less of him after that. In historical retrospect, I might as well have voted for Perot - not that a Republican presidential election vote in NY means anything anyway . . .

[vannrox]