You are arguing ideology in place of fact based economics. You would be "forced to pay for policies you disagree with". So does that mean that the 60% of the population that disagreed with GWB's Iraq policies should have been upset about their taxes being used to subsidize something they don't like and threaten to withhold their taxes?

And social welfare to help the poor is in an entirely different class than a government program that pretends to be able to purchase for the middle class a consumer good they cannot afford on their own.

Simply false.