return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 10 days ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square196fedilinkarrow-up1160arrow-down17
arrow-up1153arrow-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 · 10 days agomessage-square196fedilink
minus-squareMallspice@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·10 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-up9·10 days agoEliminating corruption is not “fiscally conservative,” it’s just fiscally responsible. Same with taxing the rich.
minus-squareMallspice@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 days agoYeah. A lot of folks I’ve met view it as fiscally conservative though.
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.
Yeah. A lot of folks I’ve met view it as fiscally conservative though.
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