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So once again, you see nothing wrong with a governor cutting taxes for his own state's citizens all the while pleading for more federal money, and all the while knowing that his state has always paid in less to the federal government than it gets back in spending.
No, I see nothing wrong with a governor cutting taxes for his own state's citizen all the while pleading for more federal money for something the federal government is meant to be there to help with.
He's not hypocritical nor against conservative values for asking for money from the federal government to do something that the federal government was set up in part to provide support for.
He's not a NO GOVERNMENT Conservative, he's a small government one. That generally means the belief that the government should not be all encompassing, and that the states should have greater rights, but that there SHOULD still be a Federal Government and that Federal Government is there to fill some important roles that function better from a unified federal stand point than a state stand point.
Military is one of these, interestate infastructure is one of these things, and disaster relief is ALSO one of these things.
Is that conservatism? Does conservatism mean that states can cut taxes for their citizens while passing the buck to citizens in other states?
No, conservatism is trying to cut taxes at the state and federal level and reduce the budget by getting rid of wasteful things that are not meant to be or needed to be done at those levels. Part of those taxes we pay into the federal government is distributed back out to the states, not necessarily in an equal manner, to the states based on the duties of the federal government and the needs.
Your over generalization of Conservative ideology is like saying that liberalism means that states and the federal government will tax your money to give it to people that screw up, can't get a job, or don't want to work despite them paying a piddling amount, if any, of the taxes.
Like I pointed out, he cut his state's income taxes knowing the his state gets 1.78 from the federal government for every dollar it pays in. He does not want his citizens to foot the bill for his states needs, he wants everyone else to.
Yes, he followed conservative ideology in the state level...reducing taxes AND reducing state spending on friviolous things while ALSO following conservative ideology on reaching out to the federal government in assistance in regards to something that the federal government was made to actually assist with.