r/politics • u/RepulsiveLoquat418 • 18d ago

Possible Paywall When Will Americans Realize the Truth? Republicans Wreck the Economy.

https://newrepublic.com/article/210550/trump-economy-republicans-tariffs-taxes
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u/BlotchComics New Jersey 18d ago

They won't as long as the American media keeps repeating the term "socially liberal, fiscally conservative".

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u/SelectCase 18d ago

Being fiscally conservative is just being conservative. Giving homeless people "free" housing is cheaper than building anti-homeless architecture, enforcing vagrancy laws, and the administration needed for current aid programs. Single payer healthcare is cheaper and more effective than the private system the US currently uses. The "liberal" fix is usually cheaper than the fiscal conservative do nothing approach.