fiscal conservatism
Government spending restraint
Fiscal conservatism is a political philosophy favoring limited government spending, lower taxes, and balanced budgets.
It emphasizes reducing public debt and letting markets operate with minimal intervention: The candidate ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism.
Someone may be fiscally conservative while holding liberal positions on social issues.
- tax cutsDecreased government assessments
- balanced budgetSpending matching revenue
- deregulationRemoving governmental business restrictions
- limited governmentOfficially bounded political authority
- privatizationState sells public assets
taxpayer dollars · classical liberalism · free market · budget surplus · thrift · penny pincher · live within means · national debt · budget · economic freedom · austerity measures · Milton Friedman · laissez-faire · Reagan · property rights · free trade · taxpayer · Tea Party movement
- fiscal policybudget deficit, deficit spending, national budget, budget surplus, budget deficits
- Right WingGOP, Republicans, Republican Party, far right, hard right
- US Politicsballot, liberalism, bill, constitutionalism, campaign
- political ideologiesconservative, anarchism, liberalism, liberal, libertarian
- economic systemscapitalism, mercantilism, communism, feudalism, socialism
- free marketsfree market, free enterprise, free trade, free markets, laissez-faire
fiscal conservatismKeynesian economics
Spending-driven macroeconomic theory
Keynesianism · deficit spending · interventionism · pump priming · stimulus spending
fiscal conservatismsocialism
Communal economic control
democratic socialism · social democracy · statism · collectivism · progressive taxation