I like taking home more of my earned income. The tax policies are just fine by me. I don't have a defined benefit retirement program financed by the taxpayers. My retirement is dependent on keeping and investing my earnings. When they are taxed away for socialist programs, my retirement resources are diminished. My father retired at age 47 with 27 1/2 years in the Navy. He never worked another day in his life. I'm 49 now and expect to be working for another 25 years. Someone has to earn real money to cover all those government employee retirement packages.
And the end rationale' of your post is..?????
The problem, at the immediate one, is not government employee retirement packages, nor military spending, nor tax cuts. The problem is an out of control unearned "entitlements" programs. Military and civil servant pensions are earned benefits, part of what was promised to people when they signed on. Basically deferred compensation. The fact that Congress rather than funding those obligations, chose to buy votes with social programs is another thing entirely. The cuts in the defense budget are to pay for those social "entitlement" programs.
Still I do wish the administration would be honest with us and tell us that, and the Congress would move to end these "entitlement" programs that are not "entitlements", in the sense of something owned or earned, but just vote (and to some extent civil order) buying programs.