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What caused Bush to break his pledge of “no new taxes”?

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In 1990, the economy slowed and they were running budget deficits. He believed that agreeing to the compromise plan proposed by the Democrats to raise some taxes would help the economy by reducing our debt and controlling their spending.
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D (the rising US debt during the 1980s) on edge

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