| The US collected $5.23T in tax revenue in 2025, $2.1T is individual income tax [0]. GDP is estimated at around $30T. Spending on social security is about $680B, medicare is $480B, defense is at $410B [1]. Microsoft's valuation is approx. $2.8T [2], Google $3.8T [3], Amazon $2.3T [4], Facebook $1.6T [5] (Linux supply side is valued at approx. $8.8T). The FBI employs roughly 38k people with about $10B in funding [7]. The CIA employs roughly 22k people with about $15B (?) in funding [8]. So, from that perspective, $10B is roughly .5% of yearly tax revenue (and about how much the FBI/CIA are funded) and estimated 50k people is about the size of the FBI and CIA combined. [0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/gover... [1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... [2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/key-statistics/ [3] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/GOOG/key-statistics/ [4] https://companiesmarketcap.com/amazon/marketcap/ [5] https://companiesmarketcap.com/meta-platforms/marketcap/ [6] https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/24-038_51f8444f-... [7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigatio... [8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency |