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