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While im not a republican, I am all for conservative use of funds to best serve the people who pay taxes.
The thing is that there are two types of innovative ideas: proactive ones, which require funding and opportunity to work (which often go unfunded and ignored in most fiscally conservative circles) and innovations of necessity, driven out of budget cuts. The first one, given controlled resources and data-driven development, can bring quite good results. The latter is often thrown together in spite of data, as a means to an end.
“Conservative policy” by its own design is diametrically opposed to innovation. It thrives on consistency and limiting resources, not taking chances, and restricting the purview of governments or nonprofits to use resources to explore. Also, as the conservative wing has become considerably more fixated on social conservatism rather than fiscal conservatism, the drive to have “new ideas” rather than just “fighting the woke mob” doesn’t really provide the right avenue for innovative thinking.
I identify as a liberal for the most part, but have shared many thoughts with people I disagree with on a philosophical level (such as mitt Romney and newt Gingrich, and Pence when he was still focused on governing) who had wonderful ideas of using available information to provide tailored services for less than currently used by using data and research to drive decisions. Unfortunately many times these efforts take time which in a political sphere is death because what you can do for me in a few years is heavily outweighed by “what can you do for me right now”.
Conservative spending is NOT the same as Conservative ideology.
Using your resources wisely is in direct violation of conservative suggestion of extracting every ounce of profit from the moment, since you are disturbing it anyway.
Regressive ideology and progressive ideology have the amazing ability to reach compromise, if the heaviest violators are willing to concede.
Absolutely, this is how taxation should work. It is also mostly how it does work, with exception to cases of overbloated spending, such as what we see in the military industrial complex. Taxpayers are entitled to the benefits brought forth through government spending of taxed dollars. Taxpayers paid for nationwide broadband internet (or at very least a much more robust network) but what we got was more monopolized “competition” and worst services. That isn’t right (just one example).
This is one thing that astounds me still. I do not want government to dictate my social life, which I think stands in opposition with this social conservatism that we see in modern day conservatism. I see government dictating my social life as a government restricting my personal liberties and freedoms. The one government that is really innovating in the realm of social control is China. I’m somewhat surprised to see that modern day conservatism is modeling itself after the chinese communitist party. I was brought up to believe that one of the values worth conserving was freedom, but it seems that this isn’t an idea upheld in modern day (social) conservatism. I don’t want a goverment that treads on me, so to speak.
Not at all.