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Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world return2ozma @lemmy.world 2w ago

"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?

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"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.

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