Limousine Liberal is a derogatory political term for a rich liberal person that expresses a deep concern for poor people yet does not spend any considerable portion of his/her wealth to help poor people. It can also mean a wealthy person who does in some way want to help the poor, but is oblivious to the costs of doing so to the working-classes. The term was coined by New York City Democratic mayoral hopeful Mario Procaccino to describe Mayor John Lindsay and his well-heeled Manhattan backers. Procaccino criticized the patrician Lindsay for favoring unemployed blacks over working-class white ethnics.

In Australia, a roughly equivalent insult of chardonnay socialist is used, and in France such people are referred to as the gauche caviar (caviar left). In the United States, the synonymous phrase latte liberal is sometimes used.

Note that liberal is used here in the same sense as socialist, while on the European continent, these two terms stand in opposition. This reflects the crucial difference - and a source of confusion - between the American liberals that find themselves opposed to conservatives (like republicans), and the Europeans that roughly see part of the liberals (the classical liberals) as adherents to laissez faire economic policies, in contradistinction to e.g. social democrats.

In Dutch, a near equivalent would be "salon socialist", and similar terms will be in use in many other languages. The point of a salon socialist, however, is not that he does not spend money charitably, but rather that she or he is not actively involved in the class struggle. Charity is seen as a capitalist and conservative project, because it leaves the alleged social structures of exploitation intact, and would even reinforce them.