***Sorry, but he was a Tax-n-Spend democrat, plain and simple.***
Bush cut taxes. He put money back into the hands of its rightful owners, and they bought things with it, just as he (and Reagan) said they would. That put more people to work making things, and THAT brought more money into the US treasury than it was getting before.
Even noted right wing media member (/dripping sarcasm) Charlie Gibson pointed out to Soetoro during one of the Democrat debates, that when both Democrat AND Republican presidents CUT taxes, revenues to the federal government INcreased...Barry Spocktoro didn't care.
Didn't take long for the trolls to come out on this one...despite disagreements we had with W, to suggest that he is no better than what we have now, or that he was a Tax-and-Spend Democrat? Utter buggering rubbish.