fiscal conservatives
Anti-spending political faction
Fiscal conservatives are people who favor limited government spending, lower taxes, and balanced budgets.
The term describes a political stance rather than a party—fiscal conservatives exist across the spectrum, though they cluster on the right.
Fiscal conservatives opposed the stimulus package.
The position emphasizes private enterprise over government programs and views deficit spending with skepticism.
- spendingOutlaying of funds
- spending cutsReducing governmental expenditures
- taxesMandatory government payments
- tax reformRevising taxation laws
- savingsAccumulated money kept
bill · classical liberalism · money · economic · budgeting · balance · government · budget hawk · financial · deficit · taxation · Thatcherism · debt · libertarianism · tax cuts · trickle down · constitutionalism · Tea Party movement
- Political FactionsRepublicans, right wing, far right, hard right, GOP
- free marketersAdam Smith, Milton Friedman, Ayn Rand, free traders, laissez-faire
fiscal conservativesdemocratic socialists
Left-wing electoral reformers
progressives · social democrats · statists · collectivists · socialists
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