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While this is technically true, the issue is that the result of the print is sent to a favored few, which is fundamentally at the expense of those who do not receive an apportioned amount. Hence, with the kind of structured inflation that is designed to "aid" the economy, you will always find losers - usually the average tax-paying citizen who constantly struggles to save up for (rental, car, mortgage, school, etc.) debt payment.

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Medicare and Social Security are the largest components of the budget. Most of the government's people and money are dedicated to services for the average person.

In a way, you're correct, but in another, you're stretching it by a significant margin. Those expenses come out of payroll and is categorized as mandatory spending, in any case. The discretionary spending, to which I implicitly referred, is the principal thing under discussion here, I believe, and is remarkable in its primary output.

Ref.: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-bud...

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