• Iceblade@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Usually fiscal irresponsibility comes in the form of lavish promises (subsidies, tax cuts, projects etc.) with a jarring absence of an answer to the question “How are we going to finance this?”

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        8 days ago

        Right, but (at least in the US) those politicians will turn around and tell voters that they’re fiscally conservative. And they will believe it.