return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 month ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square105fedilinkarrow-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 · 1 month agomessage-square105fedilink
minus-squareIceblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month 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 month 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-squareIceblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoWell, that’s just called lying - US politicians haven’t been fiscally conservative in a long time. Compared to Sweden
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