Posted on 12/05/2018 11:37:27 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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.
Simpson and all the Bush family are ... well, I cant say it. Think of all the synonyms you can for jerks.
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.
Ok, you guys need to give it a break. You totally missed the point of the story. It wasn’t thanking him for raising taxes, the point was when he decided to do it, it was going to cost him personally. At that time he thought it was best for the country so he thought of the country over himself.
Watch the clip if you haven’t before you start mis representing the point of the eulogy.
Like all of you, I think what he did was a mistake, the old increase tax needed to “raise revenue” for other programs. But that wasn’t the point of the story.
And that raising of taxes gave us Bill Clinton.
I forgot about the hand grenade with a bad haircut, as Limbaugh was wont to call him.
We've collected a record amount revenue after the Trump tax cuts. There is no need to raise taxes. We have an ample amount of revenue.
Another “Simpson” didn’t have such a high opinion of George Bush....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRXN6ACvCoE
Nonsense; GW Bush was always a globalist, he cared far more for the adulation of the press and the Establishment; he gave no more a damn about breaking a no tax pledge than he did abandoning years of Planned Parenthood support to become a foe of abortion as a consequence of Reagan putting him on the ticket. Sorry but I don’t go in for the hagiography every time a mediocre president dies; when I was young, HS Truman, Eisenhower and Hoover died. Each was a more consequential and better president than GHW Bush or Gerry Ford, and apparently sometime in the future, Carter; none of them merited the federal government and Wall Street getting a day off, a funeral train, constant press adulation, or the cawing, crowing media claiming he was the best person that ever existed. they had solid accomplishments not phony adulation.
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.
Notice at the end of my Simpsons’ clip, Homer tells Bush, “Now apologize for the tax hike!”
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