Editing Lucas Brown (section)

=== Economy, Regulation, and Welfare ===
When Brown began his career as a legislator in Passarelle, he gained a reputation as a hardline proponent of fiscal austerity and budget cuts, but has relaxed his stance on these issues in recent years. Despite promises early on in the 2016 presidential campaign trail that he would never approve of a federal budget running a significant deficit, Brown has approved numerous omnibus spending bills since assuming the presidency, several of which relied on deficit spending. He remains a staunch proponent of tax cuts, but has actually rolled back certain corporate welfare subsidies enacted by his Conservative predecessors in the late 1990s. Citing the nation's shaky history with currency devaluation in the 1970s following massive inflation, Brown generally opposes further expansion to the Maximusian welfare state. In 2019, Brown supported legislation to expand healthcare opportunities for discharged Maximusian servicemen, calling post-traumatic stress disorder a "national health threat."