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Originally Posted by Slava
Well as we've been over before, "fiscal conservative" is just a label. No one thinks that they're anything but fiscally conservative/prudent.
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To (mis)use the term in that way, decoupled from it's technical meaning, reduces it to an empty platitude. Keynesians should use an alternate term (e.g. fiscally responsible, fiscally sound...). Otherwise, it becomes very difficult to point out the drawbacks of the real fiscal conservatives if you have left yourself without the term that describes their beliefs.
I, for one, would not describe myself as a fiscal conservative. Unlike them, I believe that government should regulate the economy through countercyclical spending.