return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square193fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-square"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square193fedilink
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months ago“I vote Republican, but I’m self-aware enough to know that I should be embarrassed about it.” (In the US)
minus-squareMallspice@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI’ve heard it more the exact opposite way. “I vote Democrat but I am really tired liberals doing nothing to curb government corruption or tax the rich more.”
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoEliminating corruption is not “fiscally conservative,” it’s just fiscally responsible. Same with taxing the rich.
minus-squareMammyWhammy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago“We should run the government like a business!” Then why cut revenue as soon as you take power?
minus-squareMallspice@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoYeah. A lot of folks I’ve met view it as fiscally conservative though.
“I vote Republican, but I’m self-aware enough to know that I should be embarrassed about it.” (In the US)
I’ve heard it more the exact opposite way. “I vote Democrat but I am really tired liberals doing nothing to curb government corruption or tax the rich more.”
Eliminating corruption is not “fiscally conservative,” it’s just fiscally responsible. Same with taxing the rich.
“We should run the government like a business!”
Then why cut revenue as soon as you take power?
Yeah. A lot of folks I’ve met view it as fiscally conservative though.