You can't balance the budget by continually increasing the military budget and cutting the top marginal tax rate both of which Trump is trying to do. The top marginal tax rate during the boom years of the 50's was 91%. In 1964 Congress and LBJ reduced it to 70% then in 1981 Congress and Reagan reduced it further to 50% and reduced it again in 1986 with an effective rate of 28.5%. This continual reduction of taxes on the richest Americans under the guise of creating more jobs, "trickle down" economics, has contributed to our budget deficits and exacerbated the income disparity in America. George HW Bush famously called it "voodoo economics". This budget cuts taxes on the rich once more. Can we not learn from history that cutting taxes on the rich doesn't work? "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana