Reply #7: fiscal responsibility? - do you feel Clinton showed "fiscal responsibility" [View All]

[papau]

fiscal responsibility is one of the things that makes me a fiscally conservative Democratic Party member.

I am curious how you define what is fiscal conservatism. Should those that own over half the wealth in the US and feel we need a massive military to protect their assets pay over half the taxes needed for those protections? - At the moment they do not do so.

Should businesses that tear up our infrastructure at 10 times the rate of a group of car driving workers be required to pay the cost of the replacement of that infrastructure? At the moment they do not do so.

I guess the key question is "what is the commons" and how is it to be paid for today. What services would you remove from Government - or add to government - and what should be the allocated cost by wealth group and income group.