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coffeecrazy, I am just hoping to isolate the conservative/not so conservative nature of tax cuts by themselves, which therefore cause a deficit. Balancing budgets used to be the domain of conservatives, and busting budgets was perceived as the domain of liberals. So, do naked tax cuts make you more or less conservatve than a predesessor that admitedly taxed more than you did, but had a balanced budget.

Of course in my hypothetical I'm putting all the power in the hands of the president, and I should have positied a non-cyclical ecomony as well. These things will never happen, of course, but I think it's a useful question.

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I don't know if balancing the budget or busting the budget is the kind of thing that can be liberal or conservative. All sensible conservatives and liberals want to balance the budget. In an ideal conservative world, taxes and spending would be lower than in an ideal liberal world. I think GW Bush would defend his efforts over the last 5 years to totally bust the budget as a more long term kinda thing-- bankrupting social security and other programs will eventually cause the government to slash spending. I don't think he would call his tax cut liberal. Yet sensible republicans like John McCain have pointed out the problems with this strategy.