To deal with the recession of the early 1990s, President Bush agreed to?

Question

answers:
1) vastly increase the federal bureaucracy.
2) raise new taxes as part of a deficit-reduction plan.
3) increase spending for social programs.
4) nominate Clarence Thomas to head the Department of the Treasury.

Answer 1

Raise new taxes in order to have revenues to curb the recession.

Answer 2

But he did the right thing and lowered taxes (one of the only things he has done right) which helped spark a healthy economy which in turn fed more money to the government coffers. And it worked in very stressful times imagine if we hadn't had all those terrible hurricanes and 911. This should end all the arguments that higher taxes is a good thing. That's one of the main reasons I could never vote for a Democrat. All of their wanna be nominees have stated that raising taxes is one of the first things on their agenda. Trying to tax a country into prosperity is like a man standing in a large bucket trying to pull himself off the ground by tugging on the handle. It's impossible.