Karl Auerbach2d ago

Headline: "Trump seeks $1.5tn for defense department in budget request to Congress"

Headline: "White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Budget"

Let's run some numbers - Each $billion in Federal expenditure costs taxpayers about $3 per person.

$1.5tn is 1500 $billion - which works out to be $4,500 per tax payer.

So trump is asking for $4,500 from each person, each man, each woman, each child, in the US.

Or for a family of 4, that's $18,000 in taxes to pay for the trump/hegseth wars and war machines.

Corporations, like Amazon, Tesla, Exxon, won't pay a penny - they tend to escape taxes altogether. Same for many $billionaires - for instance none of the Trump family will pay a dime for this.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/03/us/trump-news

White House Seeks 40 Percent Increase in Military Spending

The New York Times
Show threadAlex P Roe 2d ago
@karlauerbach Won’t this effectively cancel out the tax cuts Trump made such a fuss about?
Show threadKarl Auerbach2d ago

@alex_p_roe What tax cuts?

We just finished our taxes and although the number of pages in our personal return has decreased (by about a hundred pages) I can't say the same about the effective overall tax rate.

(We also own a for-profit business corporation that has its own tax situation distinct from our own. We aren't like General Electric or Salesforce - our business actually pays Federal and state taxes.)

Show threadAlex P Roe 
@karlauerbach Ah ha, yet another case of alt-cuts. Sort of suspected as much. So there won’t also be the largest tax refund of all time either?! This makes Trump’s demand for war funding even more outrageous. The US’s golden age does appear to lack the essential golden bit. Trump is going to get much worse, isn’t he?
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Show threadNazo2d ago
@alex_p_roe @karlauerbach He did tax cuts for the rich. For example, I think Trump's tax cuts during his first time of his reign over America was the first time Bezos paid $0 instead of I guess probably $100 or something. (It drove Trump crazy at the time because he hated Bezos then for owning one of the news services that was only sometimes flattering, but I imagine he has forgotten by now.)