Taxpayers in the US have paid something like 60% of federal taxes to the US military and associated contractors for the last several decades. We have the largest military budget on Earth.
Afghanistan is a mess. Iraq is wobbly. Iran is straight up winning. Ukraine has flipped the script and now they're teaching us how to fight.
WTF was all that money for? Why the hell aren't we shifting any of that, very clearly wasted, investment?