# My job as a Republican

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838>\
**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [June 25, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838 "2022-06-25T14:29:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![teelabrown](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/teelabrown/32/8412_2.png) [@teelabrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teelabrown)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838/181 "2023-06-06T19:39:08Z")

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> [@Robot\_Arm](#):
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> When was your father’s day? Despite their rhetoric, Republicans haven’t been actual fiscal conservatives since some time before Reagan.

My dad died in 1980, so he was gone before Reagan, Gingrich, et al.

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**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838/182 "2023-06-06T23:25:29Z")

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> [@The\_Librarian](#):
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> They will cut taxes for their donors by running up the deficit.

Apparently for a large number of voters, this is the actual definition of what a “fiscal conservative” does. It makes no sense whatsoever, but there you go.

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2023, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838/183 "2023-06-06T23:46:55Z")

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Yes, as between the “Tax and Spend Party” and the “Cut Taxes and Spend Party”, which deserves the moniker of fiscal conservatism?

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**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2023, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-job-as-a-republican/966838/184 "2023-06-07T01:47:08Z")

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**Modnote** : I think this thread has drifted far enough off-topic.

Please drop the fiscal conservative hijack now.

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