I favor cutting the budget to the bone just like any individual, family or company has to do when times are tight. Cut the budget further across the board except for the police, jails, courts system and areas that exist to protect the individual and private property rights of people. After the budget is cut, I would support a flat sales tax that everyone is involved in paying. When all people have to pay a sales tax, they would tend to vote for frugal politicians. I would never support an income tax. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels called for an income tax in their "Communist Manifesto". Our Founding Fathers did not support a direct tax on individuals because it harmed individual liberty and the private property rights of people. One only has to look at the monstrosity of the federal income tax system for evidence of that.
Here is a little history of the federal income tax.
https://nccs.net/1996-03-answers-to-americas-tax-problems