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Yeah, fiscal conservative policy these days is simple limited to reducing revenue and reducing expenditures, but that's only looking at it from the government balance sheet. Overall, you saw big jumps in taxpayer costs as the distributed cost through taxation became direct user fees and big jumps to utility bills, and registration, combined with the loss of services.

True fiscal conservative policy would tax appropriately (especially business taxes which were already low enough and didn't need to be lower) and invest in infrastructure that delivers the best return for society. Be very wary of anyone who suggests that you run government like a business. It's not a business, it should never be thought of like that. Pretty much everywhere you see government run like a business it results in profiteering of the higher-ups within the ruling party.