Actually, Hillary Clinton Is A Fiscal Conservative -- Look It Up

The Washington Post ^ | 05/03/2016 | Catherine Rampell

[Chode]

yeah, right...

[bert]

how can she be conservative if she is a fiscal ignoramus?

[showme_the_Glory]

fishin for that crossover vote. Good luck.

[ek_hornbeck]

Bill Clinton wasn't an ideologue, so as you say he went with the flow and cut spending/welfare even though it ran counter to some of his instincts. In this sense he's the mirror image of the moderate Republicans who go with the flow when liberal Democrats rule the roost.

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.

[Fresh Wind]

[buckalfa]

"how can she be conservative if she is a fiscal ignoramus?"

Unfortunately you can make that same argument for most so called GOP conservatives in government.

[DoodleDawg]

Compared to Sanders? Yes she is. Compared to Trump? She may well be, it’s hard to tell with him.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

So was JFK:

“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

[RatRipper]

Hillary a fiscal conservative . . . with HER money

[Cyberman]

True; Trump’s one weakness is that he hasn’t put together a full coherent platform yet.

[wayoverontheright]

A fiscal conservative doesn’t support minimum wage laws. A fiscal conservative doesn’t use the word “rich” as a pejorative.

[griswold3]

Bill Clinton was a pragmatist.

“The Era of Big Government is Over!” SOTU Jan 27, 1996

[arthurus]

From the Wahington Post. Seriously.

[DoodleDawg]

A fiscal conservative doesn’t support minimum wage laws. A fiscal conservative doesn’t use the word “rich” as a pejorative.

A fiscal conservative does not support increased government spending and federal deficits. Both Clinton and Trump would seem to fail in that area.

[5th MEB]

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.

[Col Freeper]

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