If you never, ever run a surplus and never ever pay down any national debt whatsoever - then that implies that government should run deficits every year until the end of time. In general I am in favour of deficit financing, but at some point the chickens will come home to roost and you will start getting compounding interest payments and downgraded credit ratings and if you ignore that then eventually you default on your payments and the IMF starts running the country.
Money has to come from somwhere. If you want to raise taxes to pay for programs then fine. But you can't just print monopoly money to pay for things.