Is he really fiscal conservative?
Doug, from The Liberty Paper, wonders how committed is Rudy Giuliani to tax cutting. Rudy Giuliani presents himself as a fiscal conservative and pointing to his record as the mayor of NY:
Rudy is the real fiscal conservative in the race. He cut taxes 23 times in New York and turned a $2.3 billion budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, while balancing the city’s budget. Because he turned his conservative principles into action, New York City taxpayers saved more than $9 billion in taxes and enjoyed their lowest tax burden in decades, while the economy grew and city government saw its revenues increase from the lower tax rates. Rudy Giuliani believes in supply-side economics, because he did it and he saw it work.
If this is the case, wonder Doug, why did Giuliani oppose Pataki’s tax cut plan so much that he endorsed Mario Cuomo…
I would guess that the answer is a little more complicated. Firstly Giuliani isn’t a Libertarian and shouldn’t be confused as one. Although his agenda might be sometime close to the Libertarian agenda it is not the same. But mostly, I suspect, the reason Giuliani endorsed Cuomo was his personal relationships with both Pataki and Cuomo and the proposed tax cut were only a public excuse.
And the answer to Doug’s question "Will someone, somewhere, please tell me what Rudy Giuliani really believes in?" is rather easy - last most of them Giuliani mainly believe in himself 
But on a more serious note, I guess we will need to make our choices selecting the best available candidate. At this point in the race we can support candidates like Ron Paul, who is obviously much more Libertarian than any other candidate, but I’m afraid that this will not last long. As it seems right now Giuliani is more acceptable candidate to Libertarian than other Republican and Democratic candidates, and unless someone will prove me wrong I will hope for his successes.
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