You identify with the term fiscal conservative, but in practice, everything you advocate is straight up liberal. It proves the point that the term is meaningless. Everyone wants to spend efficiently, it’s just the priorities that distinguish conservative from liberal.
I hold that liberal goes beyond that, starting to spend extra money and tax extra when the returns are no longer as good and instead it’s less about literally saving money and more about quality of life
Fiscal conservative is “once the returns aren’t as good, stop there”
Whereas liberal goes “nah even if the returns start to suck, it’s better to further tax to even further help people purely for ethical reasons”
Liberal mindset is ethics > money
Fiscal conservative is money > ethics
Current “conservative” policy though is power > inflicting suffering > money > ethics
Which I respect and I’d love to get us towards, but tbh we gotta convince people to get past step 1 first of realizing spending money to actively hurt people, surprisingly, isn’t a good fiscal policy (which somehow genuinely confuses so many people, it’s crazy)
We are still at the stage where too many people think that spending money inflicting active harm is genuinely a good idea and a good use of taxpayer dollars
They think paying cops to go around kicking indigenous teens in the head is truly a solid Fiscal policy. Truly.
They think paying money to fund bombs being dropped on children is good Fiscal policy.
They think paying money to poison our water, destroy our ecosystems, and pollute the oceans is good Fiscal Policy
Getting past that part is step one
Literally just convincing these people to stop stabbing themselves is step 1.
Maybe later we can talk about convincing them to help others after we get them to stop hurting others…
You identify with the term fiscal conservative, but in practice, everything you advocate is straight up liberal. It proves the point that the term is meaningless. Everyone wants to spend efficiently, it’s just the priorities that distinguish conservative from liberal.
I hold that liberal goes beyond that, starting to spend extra money and tax extra when the returns are no longer as good and instead it’s less about literally saving money and more about quality of life
Fiscal conservative is “once the returns aren’t as good, stop there”
Whereas liberal goes “nah even if the returns start to suck, it’s better to further tax to even further help people purely for ethical reasons”
Liberal mindset is ethics > money
Fiscal conservative is money > ethics
Current “conservative” policy though is power > inflicting suffering > money > ethics
Which I respect and I’d love to get us towards, but tbh we gotta convince people to get past step 1 first of realizing spending money to actively hurt people, surprisingly, isn’t a good fiscal policy (which somehow genuinely confuses so many people, it’s crazy)
We are still at the stage where too many people think that spending money inflicting active harm is genuinely a good idea and a good use of taxpayer dollars
They think paying cops to go around kicking indigenous teens in the head is truly a solid Fiscal policy. Truly.
They think paying money to fund bombs being dropped on children is good Fiscal policy.
They think paying money to poison our water, destroy our ecosystems, and pollute the oceans is good Fiscal Policy
Getting past that part is step one
Literally just convincing these people to stop stabbing themselves is step 1.
Maybe later we can talk about convincing them to help others after we get them to stop hurting others…