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The govt. began to care for people that had previously been cared for by family members or religious groups. This includes the very poor, the elderly, the disabled, etc. That makes the bulk of it.

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In exchange for votes from such people. Before, many of those people were disenfranchised.

Family system used to take care of elderly and the disabled, which ultimately meant housewives were supposed to do that, unless you could afford a caretaker (which was socially frowned upon in middle class).

Then women got voting power and family system broke down, replaced by social structure. In a way today's capitalist Europe is closer to what Marx suggested than USSR.

Enormous military spending makes up the bulk that is not (at least theoretically) paid for by the SS trust fund.

Military spending is only 3-5% of GDP while total government spending has gone up from 10% of GDP to over 35%. The vast majority of the increase is not military spending.

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