return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square158linkfedilinkarrow-up181arrow-down12
arrow-up179arrow-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 · 1 year agomessage-square158linkfedilink
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWhat party runs on the platform of fiscal irresponsibility?
minus-squareIce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoUsually fiscal irresponsibility comes in the form of lavish promises (subsidies, tax cuts, projects etc.) with a jarring absence of an answer to the question “How are we going to finance this?”
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoRight, but (at least in the US) those politicians will turn around and tell voters that they’re fiscally conservative. And they will believe it.
minus-squareIce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year agoWell, that’s just called lying - US politicians haven’t been fiscally conservative in a long time. Compared to Sweden
What party runs on the platform of fiscal irresponsibility?
Usually fiscal irresponsibility comes in the form of lavish promises (subsidies, tax cuts, projects etc.) with a jarring absence of an answer to the question “How are we going to finance this?”
Right, but (at least in the US) those politicians will turn around and tell voters that they’re fiscally conservative. And they will believe it.
Well, that’s just called lying - US politicians haven’t been fiscally conservative in a long time.
Compared to Sweden