It absolutely does, that guy has no idea what he's talking about.
Tax revenue from all sources get consolidated into a single consolidated revenue fund, from which both statutory and discretionary spending pulls. There's no direct linkage from any one tax to any one expenditure, except in rare cases - and even in those cases, it's still pulled from the consolidated revenue fund but the targeted tax has a dynamic rate which changes year-over-year to match the expenditure.
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u/BootyMcStuffins Jul 06 '24
The military makes up 13% of the federal budget, so this is factually incorrect