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
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@karlauerbach A billion here and a billion there and pretty soon you’re talking real money.
They have no idea how to budget for anything, particularly military equipment. This kind of thinking just pads the pockets of military contractors for systems that cost too much, don’t work well and are not really needed.
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