Why do so many so called conservatives promote financial ideology that is extremely spendthrift?

Question

like spending money that you dont have perpetually, raise govt expenditures while reducing tax revenue...etc...policies that would make a CPA cringe? can you imagine going to your accountant and saying you plan to committ to spending billions of dollars perpetually with no end in sight and borrow money to make it happen? or going to your CPA and saying you had this great idea to become more financially sound....to cut off some of your income sources while exponentially increasing your expenditures and borrowing to make up the diff? I am sorry, but I am a conservative and these wild and crazy gambits do not seem very convervative to me.

Answer 1

I am not a big fan of "conservatives", but I strongly believe that the problem here is not with them or their ideology, but limited to off-the-chart incompetence of Bush and his administration.

There is not a single policy so much as touched by this administration that didn't result in a massive, emberrassing and predictable failure.

Answer 2

Welcome to the world of politics. Both parties exist to spend tax payer money. Neither party is a good custodian of our taxes

Answer 3

....Credit means control for the Moneychangers....Cash flow allows constant credit...Credit equals slavery and therefore control....Young is dumb for a reason....to swallow the credit hook and get on a slave stringer...

Answer 4

Raising taxes cuts govt revs.  Lowering taxes increases govt revs.  Even Obama admitted this in his last debate with Hillary.  

Tax cuts only work when there is also a decrease in spending, so I agree with you on that point.

Answer 5

I couldn't agree more! I have thought often over these last 8 disastrous years that Bush and his cronies are like 18 year old shopaholics with daddy's credit card. To go from a surplus to an embarrassing massive deficit in such a short time is shameful and un-American if you ask me.