Re: Personally, I think $250,000 is a bit low.
"the rich get more of a break than the poor." I really don't know where you get that. They pay almost all the income and business taxes in this country. The top 50 percent income taxpayers pay something like 36 times what the bottom 50 percent pays.
As far as Federal benefits and services is concerned, most of this country, right now, is being carried on the backs of people who have more money than they need to live. An American who works and pays income taxes is mostly paying for people who can't or don't. It's that simple.
Incidentally, it isn't war that uses up most of the money. I go to the trouble of writing a post like the one below, and it just doesn't sink in.