The government is the biggest consumer in America. It spends the most money because it employs many people and therefore spends money in order to provide supplies and goods for those people to do their job. They spend a large sum on the military, in order to give them state of the art equipment to do their jobs to the best of their ability. However, the price of being the best of the best is not always an affordable one. The government spends several billion dollars every year on the military each year, and it is a huge chunk of the national budget. The government spends a large amount of their budget on keeping up with their machinery and maintaining the quality of their tools. Another major percent of the budget goes to paying the salaries