Most people, even those who have read "A Christmas Carol" and not based their opinion of this classic on the many movie versions of it, think of Ebenezer Scrooge simply as  a miser.  But he was more than that.

In the famous scene in which  Scrooge is asked to donate alms for the poor, he demands of the collectors "Are there no prisons? And the Union workhouses? Are they still in operation?"

Scrooge is a liberal!

He pays his taxes and expects the government to take care of everything and everybody.  "I help to support the establishments I have mentioned - they cost enough..." he says, echoing what every survey of charitable giving says about the politics of the givers.  Apparently even poor conservatives give more to charity than rich liberals, I'm presuming because liberals believe that like Scrooge, since they help to support the government institutions of charity, they've done enough.

That would be fine, if all liberals also believed, like Scrooge "It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. "  Alas, interference in other people's business is the price liberals demand for supporting the government institutions of charity.

I guess that makes Scrooge a fiscal liberal and a culteral libertarian.