Posted on 05/03/2016 6:44:35 AM PDT by Cyberman
Suppose you're a hardcore fiscal conservative. You don't give a hoot about social issues, and you don't follow any of this nonsense about identity politics or insiders and outsiders. All you care about is getting the nation's fiscal house in order.
Are you sitting down? I hope youre sitting down. Because the candidate you should vote for might surprise you.
According to a new report from the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, the most fiscally conservative presidential contender left standing is . . . Hillary Clinton.
Seriously....
how can she be conservative if she is a fiscal ignoramus?
fishin for that crossover vote. Good luck.
I'm not sure whether Hillary is equally pragmatic on fiscal matters. On social and cultural issues as well as foreign policy she's much more of a radical ideologue than Bill was (in fact, many of Bill's worst moves were Hillary's pet projects). I haven't seen evidence one way or the other on economic issues, but my guess is that she's more along the lines of status quo crony capitalism than Bernie Sanders-style outright socialism.
Unfortunately you can make that same argument for most so called GOP conservatives in government.
Compared to Sanders? Yes she is. Compared to Trump? She may well be, it’s hard to tell with him.
Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased not a reduced flow of revenues to the federal government.
John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963
Hillary a fiscal conservative . . . with HER money
True; Trump’s one weakness is that he hasn’t put together a full coherent platform yet.
A fiscal conservative doesn’t support minimum wage laws. A fiscal conservative doesn’t use the word “rich” as a pejorative.
Bill Clinton was a pragmatist.
“The Era of Big Government is Over!” SOTU Jan 27, 1996
From the Wahington Post. Seriously.
A fiscal conservative does not support increased government spending and federal deficits. Both Clinton and Trump would seem to fail in that area.
Well of course she is; she won’t spend a dime of her own money, she just keeps on accumulating more.
Now when it comes to the TAX PAYERS money; that’s a different story.
She is willing and eager to spend your money like a drunken sailor on liberty.
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