• conditional_soup@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    Fiscal responsibility would have been preventing climate change instead of paying 10(+)x the cost mitigating it on top of still paying to slow it.

    Fiscal responsibility would have been not bail out and continuously subsidize free market failures.

    Fiscal responsibility would have been to cut defense spending ever. Or maybe just don’t invade Iraq the second time for no goddamn reason.

    Fiscal responsibility would have been building a robust public transit and freight rail infrastructure instead of continuously building and rebuilding roads that destroy themselves faster and faster under more and heavier vehicles.

    Fiscal responsibility would be not spending more on means testing than it costs to just give people help who ask for it.

    This next one’s going to be real hard for people who aren’t math geniuses like me, but fiscal responsibility would also mean having enough taxes to cover your spending.