And by the way, if you think that governments are accountable to the public you are sadly mistaken. They are accountable to that 1%.
Not true. National defense is about 13% of our federal budget. Medicare, Medicaid, healthcare, and Social Security are 50%.
https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/where-does-all-the-m...
The 1% earn 26% of all income, but pay 46% of all income taxes. The bottom 50% of earners pay 2% of income taxes.
https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/do-the-rich-pay-thei...
But our system has a serious problem. We've increased the debt by $11 trillion in the past four years, which was our total debt for the first 200 years the country was around.
The only point here is the problem is significantly harder than you're making it sound, and that's if we had a straightforward way to just stop all the wars. Unfortunately, no one's been able to come up with a way to do this yet.
Bottom 50% of taxpayers pay 2% of all taxes. The “poor” not only pay nothing, they’re given money via credits.