return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months ago"I'm socially liberal but fiscally conservative" - What do you think when you hear that?message-squaremessage-square183fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down14
arrow-up1129arrow-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 · 2 months agomessage-square183fedilink
minus-squareIce@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months 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-up2·2 months 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-up4·2 months agoWell, that’s just called lying - US politicians haven’t been fiscally conservative in a long time. Compared to Sweden
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoYes, they lie about it and their base eats it up.
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
Yes, they lie about it and their base eats it up.