And last I checked standard Liberal Policy pushes for “Liberal Bankruptcy Laws” which as you correctly noted are foreign to Judaisim, in Jewish Law if you borrow money from someone you must pay him back period.
And yes, Charliehall, the Torah does institute various forms of “personal” charity which was strenthened by the instution of “progressive” rates by BEis Din.
Please note though, that it is “personal charity” by those that can afford it that is mandated by the Torah not a burecratic forced taxation to a central authority in charge of giving to who they wish to give to.
And yes this would parellal the Conservative vs Liberal divide where each and every study shows that Conservatives are far more generous with their personal wealth towards others then Liberals.
This was recently evidenced by a Presidential race where both Canidates Romney and Obama were both extremley wealthy individually (Obama is a millionaire many times over) and yet while Romney gave 13% of his money to charity and his campaign was able to show multiple first accounts of his personal generosity.
Obama campaigned on forcing others to be charitable while his personal finances did not indicate anything quite like the charity he advocated.
As for Laisezz-faire.
I am unaware of a single Conservative or Republican Politician today that advocates a completley free-market system.
What they do advocate is keeping to the Principals of Capitolism that brought more people out of poverty then any other economic system in the World.
The Capitalist principals that produced the World Greatest Economic Power.
The most Charitable Society in the World.
And yes, an end to the horrible “economic experiments” that are currently being carried out on the backs of millions of hard working Human Beings who are being financially destroyed and facing a future which saddles their children with unpayable debts and broken promises that promised fiancial security but simply cannot be kept.
In other words.
Greece.