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free2OSS | 5 years ago

That unfortunately isn't the Republican platform.

We are taught that in school, but their policy doesn't line up with that.

There is a strong debate to be made Biden is more fiscally right leaning than Trump. Where Trump was big into economic intervention (higher taxes through tariffs and SALT Deduction removal, higher deficit, new government spending projects, tax credits, free money, and restricting commerce on bump stocks).

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dragonwriter|5 years ago

> There is a strong debate to be made Biden is more fiscally right leaning than Trump.

Despite having the word “conservatism” in it, fiscal conservatism isn't a Right position in that more of it makes you more right. It's basically a position whose apex is in center-right neoliberal corporate capitalism; go farther left or right and it becomes less of a priority.

Biden is definitely closer to the center-right than Trump, but he's not more right-leaning.