Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Payment Goes to the Military

The 2011 military budget, by the way, is the largest in history, not just in actual dollars, but in inflation adjusted dollars, exceeding even the spending in World War II, when the nation was on an all-out military footing.

Hidden numbers are even worse. The US hides the CIA, NSA and other budgets, including some parts of the DOD budget.
The government also hides the size of the military budget by adding spending on Social Security, which is funded by separate taxation (FISA), into the total, to increase the denominator of the "general budget".Dave Lindorff