liberal policies
Government expansion measures
Liberal policies are government approaches that favor social reform, individual rights, and public intervention in economic affairs.
In American politics, liberal policies typically support expanded social programs, environmental regulation, civil liberties protections, and progressive taxation: The candidate ran on liberal policies like universal healthcare and climate action.
The term carries positive or negative weight depending on the speaker's political orientation.
- freedom of speechProtected right to speak
- renewable energySelf-replenishing natural power
- voting rightsEntitlement to elect officials
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- progressive taxationRates increase with income
social safety net · inclusion · religious freedom · universal basic income · living wage · climate change mitigation · clean energy · diversity · racial justice · foreign aid · criminal justice reform · diplomacy · LGBTQ+ rights · marriage equality · reproductive rights · immigration reform · path to citizenship · open borders
- AmsterdamAnne Frank House, Amstel, Van Gogh Museum, Rijksmuseum, canal boats
- 1848 RevolutionFebruary Revolution, provisional government, abdication, barricades, universal suffrage
liberal policiesfree-market policies
Government hands-off economic stance
austerity policies · deregulation · trickle-down economics · fiscal conservatism · Reaganomics
liberal policiesfree-market policies
Government hands-off economic stance
deregulation · austerity measures · privatization · supply-side economics · fiscal conservatism
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