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EnderAlan04 wrote: @Lonixdron Yeah I forgot about George H. W. Bush raising taxes, while he said on the campaign trail "Read my lips, no new taxes." I didn't know we has forced the Democrats to raise them. I think people blame the POTUS, instead of blaming it on congress. "In the wake of a struggle with Congress, Bush was forced by the Democratic majority to raise tax revenues; as a result, many Republicans felt betrayed because Bush had promised "no new taxes" in his 1988 campaign." This was from the Wikipedian article