A conservative budget depends on a economy that provides everyone with opportunities to be investors  or workers in or owners of businesses that would provide us with the income we to be the primary providers of our own housing, food , medical care , and retirement funds made affordable by market forces not regulations or subsidies. This could lead to less need for government financial assistance programs and a so less need for tax revenues except to fund our defense against foreign enemies and terrorists with weapons of mass destruction and recovering from or surviving large scale natural disasters preferably in ways that better prepare us for future large scale disasters.  The more we can do for ourselves the less need we may have for government assistance programs. We should be electing political leaders who understand this and will pass and enforce laws making this so.