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
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