return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 13 days ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square107fedilinkarrow-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 · 13 days agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squareIceblade@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·12 days 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-up0·12 days 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-up3·12 days 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