> It's a [sic] liberal jargon." Given your definition of "spending other people's money on something that doesn't benefit them or their [idealized notions of]

> It's a [sic] liberal jargon." Given your definition of "spending other people's money on something that doesn't benefit them or their [idealized notions of] society", this fits far more in the camp of conservative wordplay. Liberals--at least according to the US conservative political narrative--love to "steal" other people's money to spend it on something that doesn't benefit them directly. Or so the conservatives charge. It is rare--if even that frequently--to hear American liberals refer to the spending of public money as "theft" in public discourse.