What would you call a fiscal conservative/social liberal who isn't a libertarian?

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Do you want it to trigger me?

Seriously though, I'd call you a conservative-liberal. Like, I dunno, VVD or a Cameron Tory or whatever.

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Harsh regressive policies that pointlessly target vulnerable groups? No way, not me! BTW have I told you my plan to 'reform entitlements'?

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Harsh regressive policies that pointlessly target vulnerable groups? No way, not me! BTW have I told you my plan to 'reform entitlements'?

Permission to sig this?

Granted

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Anyway, libertarianism is different from 'fiscal conservatism' because the latter is clearly supposed to be pragmatic while the former is idealogical.

For example, a libertarian views taxes as immoral. An FC (or economic liberal) will probably view taxes as having a negative effect, but they don't consider the act of taxation to be bad. You wouldn't here a libertarian say something like "the government should spend money and the investment should pay for itself" while an FC may be more susceptible to those arguments.