return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 6 days ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square141fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down15
arrow-up1121arrow-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 · 6 days agomessage-square141fedilink
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·edit-25 days 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-up3·5 days 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-up10·5 days agoEliminating corruption is not “fiscally conservative,” it’s just fiscally responsible. Same with taxing the rich.
minus-squareMammyWhammy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days ago“We should run the government like a business!” Then why cut revenue as soon as you take power?
minus-squareMallspice@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 days 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.