Liberals pay their own way. The blue states are all net contributors to the national treasury, paying in more taxes than they take out in benefits.
Conservatives, for all their talk about responsibility and self-help and pulling oneself up by one's bootstraps are infants sucking at the federal tit. The red states are a net drag on the treasury, taking out more in benefits than they pay in via taxes.
Liberals believe in progressive tax policies, where those who reap more benefit from living in the US pay a larger share of the total tax burden than those who are struggling.
Conservatives believe the poor have too much money and the rich don't have enough, so they give tax cuts to the rich, paid for by the middle and working classes (Reagan's income tax cuts for the wealthy were followed by payroll tax increases on the middle and working classes, which don't affect the wealthy because of the ceiling on payroll taxable income. Anybody who was paying attention during the Reagan years realizes that while their gross income increased, their net "take-home" pay decreased.) And welfare was "reformed" by the Trojan horse Republican, Bill Clinton, despite costing a grand total of 1/6 of a cent of every tax dollar spent. That's 0.167%. If your pre-"reform" tax bill was $1,000.00, exactly $1.67 went to welfare, whose officiall name lest we forget was AFDC, Aid to Families of Dependant Children, and the whole purpose as to keep the single mother home to take care of her children, not to "transition" her to low paying domestic work that doesn't cover the cost of day care.
But apparently, $1.67 per $1,000 i just too much for the GOBP to handle. Swine.
Liberals believe risk is a necessity in the capitalist system: if your company screws up badly enough. it goes out of business.
Conservatives believe in socialism for the rich. If your company screws the pooch, they will limit your liability via a cap on damages, and if your corporation REALLY fucks the dog, like trying brainless gambles with other people's money and/or peddling toxic sub-prime mortgages as legitimate investments, they will bail you out with the taxpayers' money,but without the taxpayers receiving any equity for their investment, because "THAT'S SOCIALISM. AND BIG GOVERNMENT. BIG GOVERNMENT BAD. BIG BIDNESS GOOD. CAN I HAVE COOKIE NOW?"