Fiscal conservatism poll: where do you stand?

[BG-NY]

What do you think?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Reduce Deficit spending: This is to vague of a question and relates to your other questions so I’ll answer the others.

Raising Ages for Social Security/Medicare : As of now no , I would rather raise the social security payroll tax cap and means test benefits . If that’s not enough then I’d support raising the age

Reducing Military Spending(I will break this up) : I think we should audit the pentagon to see how exactly we are spending each dollar as that will tell us what we can easily cut and what we can’t .

Foreign Aid : Depends on what as I support our current aid to Ukraine but I opposed our aid to the Syrian Rebels as Assad was the lesser evil there . I also think we should pressure every NATO nation to spend 2% on defense . So again depends on the individual subject

Increasing individual/Corporate  tax rates : No but I would support getting rid of the carried interest loophole

Eliminating subsidies: Depends on what , as I support the CHIPs act . I would though put strict terms and conditions on any subsidy

[Mercenary]

I support all of those except raising individual income tax rates, Id be open to making capital gains considered ordinary income though.

[They not like us]

The only individuals whose taxes should be raised are those making several million dollars a year or more, at least 5-10 million. I also support increased corporate taxes and reduce military spending, along with some reduction in foreign aid not including Ukraine

[President Johnson]

I'm for reducing the deficit. As for the other, I would say "it depends", and not a rigid Yes/No answer.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I'm for reducing the deficit. As for the other, I would say "it depends", and not a rigid Yes/No answer.

Other than taxes do you agree with my answers on here . I think it’s something conservatives and liberals could generally agree with

[President Johnson]

I'm for reducing the deficit. As for the other, I would say "it depends", and not a rigid Yes/No answer.

Other than taxes do you agree with my answers on here . I think it’s something conservatives and liberals could generally agree with

Actually yes, other than taxes, I could agree with most of that. As for military spending, it depends as well. For long I though the US and NATO countries should cut defense spending for deficit reduction and social programs, but the war in Ukraine and China's increasing hostility makes a strong defense of NATO vitally important.

[T'Chenka]

Austerity is bad
Bloated military budgets are bad
Deficit spending is (usually but not always) bad
Low taxes on the rich are really bad
Low taxes on corporations are really bad
Cutting entitlements is really bad (raising retirement age is bad too)
Weakening the social safety net is really really bad

[Orwell]

Cutting deficit spending is dumb

Military spending is necessary, if anything it should be increased we got a lot of sh**t to fix in the military.

Raise taxes on the rich

Abolish the corporate tax

Raise the retirement age (Canada has some good ideas to cut down on social spending)

[Mr. Ukucasha]

The only individuals whose taxes should be raised are those making several million dollars a year or more, at least 5-10 million. I also support increased corporate taxes and reduce military spending, along with some reduction in foreign aid not including Ukraine

Do you also support a European-style welfare state?

If so, lolololololololol.

Taxing the ultra-wealthy alone wouldn't even come close to generating the revenue needed to fund a generous welfare state. There's a reason why taxes on the wealthy are only slightly higher in Europe than they are in America, while taxes on the poor and middle-class are substantially higher in the former than the latter (especially with 10%+ VAT taxes).

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Incredible that this place still has enough brainworms to offer majority support only to the two absolute dumbest policies here. We have a dire scenario with both Russia and China brewing, and our allies are still not doing their part. It's contingent on the USA to save the world again, and a majority of the people here seem ok with just letting what should be pariah states become murderous imperial superpowers.

The only acceptable item on this list is to raise individual income taxes. The first choice only makes sense when compared to COVID-era spending. Otherwise, cut from what?

[No War, but the War on Christmas]

'Reducing military spending and/or foreign aid' is a weird thing to include together since most people who favor one probably don't favor the other (I'm sure there are those people, but I think they're a minority) in any case I voted in favor of corporate and personal tax increases, cutting the military budget and was hesitant on 'subsidies' since that's also a huge simplification and I wasn't sure which industry we were talking about really.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I'm for reducing the deficit. As for the other, I would say "it depends", and not a rigid Yes/No answer.

Other than taxes do you agree with my answers on here . I think it’s something conservatives and liberals could generally agree with

I broadly agree with your reply.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Cutting deficit spending is dumb

Military spending is necessary, if anything it should be increased we got a lot of sh**t to fix in the military.

Raise taxes on the rich

Abolish the corporate tax

Raise the retirement age (Canada has some good ideas to cut down on social spending)


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LoL do you know if you work for Walmart they part half your SSA taxes did you know our employers issued by the Fed reserve gave us these two stimulus checks it's called Economics 101


The IRS gives us our refunds but they are given to the Treasurey by Corp taxes, SSA is going bankrupt we have to raise Corporate taxes


We had surplus pre Trump tax cuts because Corp taxes were 35 percent , Guess who vote for Trump tax cut DeSantis in the H

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

The only individuals whose taxes should be raised are those making several million dollars a year or more, at least 5-10 million. I also support increased corporate taxes and reduce military spending, along with some reduction in foreign aid not including Ukraine

Something like this.

[John Dule]

All except #4, which should be reduced.

[Ferguson97]

Increase taxes on certain individuals (the wealthy) and on corporations.

[RINO Tom]

I support all of those except raising individual income tax rates, Id be open to making capital gains considered ordinary income though.

I mean capital gains rates are lower for very specific and productive reasons…

[TheReckoning]

Increase taxes on certain individuals (the wealthy) and on corporations.

Why? The best countries to live on Earth (Switzerland, Norway, etc.) all have lower corporate tax rates than the United States.

[Ferguson97]

Increase taxes on certain individuals (the wealthy) and on corporations.

Why? The best countries to live on Earth (Switzerland, Norway, etc.) all have lower corporate tax rates than the United States.

Why do you believe that this is a causal relationship?

[politicallefty]

Medicare should be expanded, not reduced.

[Person Man]

I would be OK with eliminating max contributions by payroll tax. The SS age should be 70 but the Medicare age should be reduced to a point where the population that has to compete for insurance is much healthier.

[HillGoose]

i dont stand, i sit bcuz im lazy and fat

[nfvlmv]

I don't stand. Not for fiscal conservatism.

[MarkD]

Reducing deficit spending.

People seem to forget that paying interest on the national debt is one of the foremost ways the United States government helps rich people -- from all around the world -- get richer.