Who else on the board, Frdrrrrrrxxxxxx?
Me.
I'm with Ron Paul regarding foreign wars and the drug war.
Negotiating drug prices could save the government huge amounts of money.
Are you politically aligned with the average Iowa voter?
Freddy, those first two are more libertarian positions than fiscal conservative ones. The third one is a fiscal liberal position and more socialist than capitalist (I'm not being judgmental about either of those words).
Fiscal conservatives, as people seem to talk about, are in favor of lower tax rates, lower or no capital gains tax rates, getting rid of the inheritance tax, seriously reducing the government's budget, reducing the size of the welfare state, so on and so forth. It has also been expanded to include drilling for oil everywhere and by every means possible, deregulating and trusting companies to do what's right, allowing interlocking boards of directors, so on and so forth. The concept of corporations as people is a new-style fiscally conservative idea.
I'm to the left of the average North Carolina voter, but probably to the right of the average New York voter. God knows what the average Florida voter is.
I haven't moved my political positions much in the past few years; however, the people who think of themselves as the True Warriors of Fiscal Conservatism have moved that bar so far to the right that I can't legitimately identify myself that way anymore.
I'm for a realistic recalibration of entitlement programs designed to make them last (things like raising the retirement age, means testing, cutting some benefits). That doesn't cut it anymore: to be what the GOP calls fiscal conservative, you have to support privatization of Social Security, for example. I can't get on board with that at all.
