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'''Claim''': Liberal policies cause more debt, while [[conservatroll|"conservative"]] policies reduce it.
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{{hdr/myth|Liberal fiscal policies create more debt.}}
 
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==Myth==
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Liberal policies cause more debt, while [[disconservatism|"conservative"]] policies reduce it.
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==Reality==
 
This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things:
 
This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things:
 
* Engage in common-good investment that:
 
* Engage in common-good investment that:
 
** improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending)
 
** improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending)
 
** disproportionately benefits those with the most need
 
** disproportionately benefits those with the most need
* Increase taxes -- especially on those with the most surplus, i.e. the rich -- to pay for these investments.
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* Where spending is increased, taxes -- especially on those with the most surplus, i.e. the rich -- are increased to pay for the spending.
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* Liberal policies and laws frequently provide more overall benefit without actually being more expensive than existing policies and laws.
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** {{l/ip|Obamacare}}, for example, was projected to be deficit-neutral (despite repeated right-wing claims that we "can't afford it") and is actually turning out to save more money than expected.
  
The anti-liberal {{l/ip|mainstream media}} tends to dishonestly {{l/ip|interpretive framing|frame}} such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for [[conservatroll|"conservative"]] policies would be "'''borrow'''-and-spend", since that has been the historical pattern for Republican/"conservative" administrations since the Reagan era.
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[[File:405875 2404492924164 601932573 n Tax-and-Spend liberal.jpg|thumb|Spot the Tax-And-Spend Liberal]]
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The anti-liberal {{l/ip|mainstream media}} tends to dishonestly {{l/ip|interpretive framing|frame}} such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for [[disconservatism|"conservative"]] policies would be "'''borrow'''-and-spend", since that has been the historical pattern for Republican/"conservative" administrations since the Reagan era.
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"Conservative" – a misnomer for "Republican" – policies have been largely responsible for the deficit-growth [[Myths/federal debt is now at an all-time high|that "conservatives" like to complain about]].
 
==Claim Examples==
 
==Claim Examples==
 
"Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/YrifdxFWGCy Google+, 2014-02-08]
 
"Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - [https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/YrifdxFWGCy Google+, 2014-02-08]
 
"a record natl debt (obuma has added $8 TRILLION to the natl debt and his annual budget adds $1/2 TRILLION TO IT EVERY YEAR. OH BY THE WAY...THIS IS FAR LEFT RADICAL REGRESSIVE SOCIALIST LIBERAL DEMOCRAT ECONOMIC POLICY. SO UNDER THE DEMOCRATS WE DONT HAVE AN ECONOMY WE HAVE GOVT SLAVERY." - [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+JasonEasleyPoliticusUSA/posts/YQZ4P8ph1rT Google+, 2014-12-03]
 

Latest revision as of 00:41, 27 December 2015

Budget Crisis Propaganda
Myth: Liberal fiscal policies create more debt.

Myth

Liberal policies cause more debt, while "conservative" policies reduce it.

Reality

This is the opposite of the truth. From a fiscal viewpoint, liberal policies tend to do two things:

  • Engage in common-good investment that:
    • improves the economy over the long term (and often in the short term as well, e.g. stimulus spending)
    • disproportionately benefits those with the most need
  • Where spending is increased, taxes -- especially on those with the most surplus, i.e. the rich -- are increased to pay for the spending.
  • Liberal policies and laws frequently provide more overall benefit without actually being more expensive than existing policies and laws.
    • Obamacare, for example, was projected to be deficit-neutral (despite repeated right-wing claims that we "can't afford it") and is actually turning out to save more money than expected.
Spot the Tax-And-Spend Liberal

The anti-liberal mainstream media tends to dishonestly frame such responsible, forward-looking policies as "tax-and-spend" -- leaving many people with the image of personally being drained by taxation in order to pay for heedless liberal indulgence; an equally honest phrase for "conservative" policies would be "borrow-and-spend", since that has been the historical pattern for Republican/"conservative" administrations since the Reagan era.

"Conservative" – a misnomer for "Republican" – policies have been largely responsible for the deficit-growth that "conservatives" like to complain about.

Claim Examples

"Soon, I fear, this nation will become bankrupt and it we will be turned over to the communists/Marxists/socialists/liberal/progressives that have been weighing down our spending by encouraging deadbeats to go on welfare and suck this nation dry." - Google+, 2014-02-08