I am a personal investor with a healthy sense of financial skepticism which I developed while working for several global investment banks providing financial analysis and global equity research to the investment management community.
As a fiscal conservative I have attached a picture of Thomas Jefferson. In contrast to Alexander Hamilton, who created a system dependent upon public debt and taxes, TJ was opposed to public debt and with the help of the Democratic-Republican Congress (i.e. the anti-Federalists) many taxes were ended on his watch. This loss of government income forced Jefferson (with much enthusiasm) to reduce the number of Federal employees and the size of the military.
As a fiscal conservative I have attached a picture of Thomas Jefferson. In contrast to Alexander Hamilton, who created a system dependent upon public debt and taxes, TJ was opposed to public debt and with the help of the Democratic-Republican Congress (i.e. the anti-Federalists) many taxes were ended on his watch. This loss of government income forced Jefferson (with much enthusiasm) to reduce the number of Federal employees and the size of the military.