Cutting the military isn't really an option like that. They're the largest employer of people in the country.
You'd create mass unemployment of young people to pay out the unemployment of old people.
You'd create mass unemployment of young people to pay out the unemployment of old people.
You (I'm not in the US) should cut your military not to lower taxes, but to increase spending in actually productive areas of the economy. Military spending is not productive, by definition, most of what it spends is buying stuff and people that are supposed to be disposable via war.
There is certainly a case that military spending is not the most effective way to multiply the economic effect that other kinds of spending like infrastructure, education or healthcare, research etc . All of these have huge secondary effects in simulating the economy that military probably does not have .