Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

Enabling more pollution is a conservative value.
The difference as far as I am concerned is not larger government, both parties are for larger government. Conservatives are for larger deficits right now. They don't care about any kind of fiscal responsibility. They focus on the level of taxation and ignore the level of debt. If taxation had merely remained constant in the last 5 years there would be almost no added debt.

Conservatives pity the rich and hate the poor. They wish to enable corporate profits at the expense of labor and health and safety. The long course of people fighting for things like the FDA are not based on anything but social welfare. Even this is seen as evil by the conservative. Social welfare is by definition bad to the conservative mind. Conservatives want people to buy unregulated elixirs.

The list is endless. But essentially corporate welfare is a conservative value, even when that welfare creates hazards for the general population.