No, raising taxes is not a conservative principle, bucko. Since you didn't have the guts to answer it, I will.
No it's not, but since Reagan wanted what was in those bills - and there is no line item veto - so he signed them to get the increased the military funds in them to put more pressure on the Soviet Union, I'd say, as a conservative, that Reagan's priorities to undermine the Soviet Union were in keeping with the most sacred conservative principal of all; kill communism.
Bush, OTOH, has grown the government so big, that even a Republican successor will have a hard time not increasing the taxes to pay for George's "Big Government Follies".
You just don't get the lay of the political land, do you? The Bush's and the Kennedy's are the two sides of the same coin. Eastern liberalism.