Governments will always be predisposed towards tax-and-spend.
It takes either an extreme financial/fiscal crisis, or a government with a strong sense of ideology/discipline to prod governments towards the straight and narrow path of fiscal prudence. Not to mention how hard it is to root out entrenched interests (public employee payrolls are a bulging low-hanging fruit, but good luck to those who try to prune it).

Even our last Conservative government (despite a good start) was not immune.
And the Liberal governments of the 90s adopted fiscal conservatism out of necessity.

For those of us who question the efficacy of government efforts/spending to spur the economy, or the benefits of heavy-handed government intervention into individuals' lives and the market, the only logical solution is to put more power into the hands of the individual citizen by shrinking government. Good luck with that.