Trumpy&Co. need money to establish some mega army - they say the military budget will be as much as $1.5 trillion in 2027. I don't know if they're just planning to conquer Greenland, Colombia, and Iran, or if they discovered Martians and are planning to kidnap their president

Think about how much money they could save the taxpayers if they reduced military spending by merely 20%. let alone by half.
Maybe then they could remove all the homeless from the streets, improve healthcare, public education, and the like. Honestly, what's happening there reminds me of communism, which I unfortunately grew up in, where they constantly filled our ears with external and internal enemies, half the budget went to the army and secret services while people stood in long lines for bread and a piece of meat and drove cars on an odd/even day basis.
It is obvious that the average US citizen will be happy to have the most powerful army in the world, regardless of the fact that it will mean that his standard of living will be worse.
Having lived in the USA since I was born in 1957 and having served in the USA 🇺🇸 navy for five years I would say Trump/Maga has 30 million total loyalists maybe more.
Then there are the practical people with cash that figure Trump is good for their money. That is at least 5 million more.
This gives Trump/Maga a powerful base to work on.
The USA stopped 50 percent fed tax brackets since Tricky Dick Nixon.
this created a huge base of quasi rich people that vote republican.
And since they are quasi rich they wield some power and influence.
It is a true mess.
Well lets see how bad it gets over the next few years.
I read 1 million returns between 500,000 and 1,000,000 income they would all go from 37% rate to 50%
so 1,000,000x100,000= 100,000,000,000 it only 100 billion in tax which would not fix the wasted money.
cant find how many returns are over 1,000,000
but 55 years x 100 billion is 5.5 trillion not accounting inflation or interest.
so it is likely close to the 5 or 6 trillion number given to people with high incomes.
but I am having trouble finding the 1 million dollar plus returns.
Still the point is this is a 55 year problem in the making.
both the far left and the far right make problems and do not fix them.