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> who are by far the largest budgetary expense for the tax payer

not even top 3

You are 100% wrong. You listed entitlements. National Defense is half of all discretionary spending.

Homeland Security is less than 1/6th the budget of DoD alone.

That's a typo, dhhs.

Regardless it's not an inaccurate breakdown of where your tax dollars go.

Let me guess without looking up, debt interest, gov pension, medicare?

Close, DHS, SSA, then Treasury.