So which government is more fiscally conservative?
A low tax high spend government (ie. most Republican/Conservative government) with a 25 billion deficit.
A high tax high spend government (haven't seen this yet in NA) with a balanced budget.
Balanced budgets is one of the main tenets of fiscal conservatism. For me, it's by far the most important thing, and I personally don't care if they do it through service cuts or increased taxation. According to wikipedia, I fit in the "deficit hawk" category of fiscal conservatives.
Your emphasis on tax cuts and "business environment" is apparently a second group of fiscal conservatives that think tax cuts are the solution. This is definitely the largest faction of fiscal conservatives, but I would argue that it's the most ineffective form of fiscal conservatism. Both Bush and Trump subscribe to this philosophy, and both have added trillions of dollars to the debt without any gains in the government ledger.
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