While im not a republican, I am all for conservative use of funds to best serve the people who pay taxes.

Absolutely, this is how taxation should work. It is also mostly how it does work, with exception to cases of overbloated spending, such as what we see in the military industrial complex. Taxpayers are entitled to the benefits brought forth through government spending of taxed dollars. Taxpayers paid for nationwide broadband internet (or at very least a much more robust network) but what we got was more monopolized “competition” and worst services. That isn’t right (just one example).

“Conservative policy” by its own design is diametrically opposed to innovation. It thrives on consistency and limiting resources, not taking chances, and restricting the purview of governments or nonprofits to use resources to explore. Also, as the conservative wing has become considerably more fixated on social conservatism rather than fiscal conservatism, the drive to have “new ideas” rather than just “fighting the woke mob” doesn’t really provide the right avenue for innovative thinking.

This is one thing that astounds me still. I do not want government to dictate my social life, which I think stands in opposition with this social conservatism that we see in modern day conservatism. I see government dictating my social life as a government restricting my personal liberties and freedoms. The one government that is really innovating in the realm of social control is China. I’m somewhat surprised to see that modern day conservatism is modeling itself after the chinese communitist party. I was brought up to believe that one of the values worth conserving was freedom, but it seems that this isn’t an idea upheld in modern day (social) conservatism. I don’t want a goverment that treads on me, so to speak.