Do you want to pretend that the Dot Com Boom didn't happen?
Did it happen? Yeah. Did an industry that probably only created a few billion in real value have an effect on a 14 Trillion dollar economy? Nope, not that much.
Because if you expect the same economic outcome to happen now, simply because someone named Clinton is sitting in the Oval Office you're one of two things, Joey...either REALLY ignorant or REALLY naive! The Dot Com Boom brought in HUGE amounts of tax revenues.
Well, no, it really didn't. Everyone I knew had good jobs that paid well during the Clinton years. My own salary nearly doubled. Few people I knew had jobs in Tech. The best that can be said about the Dot Com it was the canary in a coal mine. But Bush was the one who said, "Let's keep digging, and hey, let's knock out those supports over dere... WEEE-Haaaaa!!!!"
It's like pretending that if we bring back the tax rates we had under Ike we'll have the same economic outcomes as they had back in the 1950's even though the rest of the world's infrastructure isn't in tatters following a World War that left us as the only remaining Super Power.
Except that great economy continued throughout the sixties and into the seventies when everyone else rebuilt their infrastructure. We kept making the rich pay their fair share and kept investing it into infrastructure and education and we got pretty good results.
Until the retards came along talking about "Laffer Curves" and "Supply Side" and other shit that failed almost as soon as it was tried. And then Reagan instituted the biggest tax increase in history and doubled government spending in peacetime.
and conservatives at the time were angry at him for doing it. THat's why Bush had to issue the 'No new taxes" pledge.
Now since then, you've had to deify Reagan, because he's the only president who didn't shit the bed, unlike the Bushes, Nixon and Ford.