In 1987, former US president Richard Nixon visited vice president George H. Bush, who would contest the 1988 presidential election. The pair discussed how the supply-side ‘voodoo economics’ of Ronald Reagan had extended Washington’s consecutive deficits since the 1960s. Nixon warned Bush: ‘You’ve got to handle the deficit. You know there is going to have to be a tax increase.
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