Thomas Jefferson's second Inaugural Address...
He speaks specifically to the question of financing a war not by increasing taxes by suspending all public works (Alaskan bridges to nowhere) so as to not pass on debt to the next generations.
(Tax revenues are applied)....."in time of peace to rivers, canals, roads, arts, manufactures, education, and other great objects within each State. In time of war, if injustice by ourselves or others must sometimes produce war, increased as the same revenue will be by increased population and consumption, and aided by other resources reserved for that crisis, it may meet
within the year all the expenses of the year without encroaching on the rights of future generations by burthening them with the debts of the past. War will then be but a
suspension of useful works, and a return to a state of peace, a return to the progress of improvement.