it can be interesting to steelwoman that argument, for instance think of the vast sums of basically unnacountable money siphoned from taxpayers to kill hundreds of thousands of people during the iraq war, for instance?

it's not the worst idea to have some counterbalances to that type of spending

Unfortunately if I underpay my taxes I don't get to pick whether it comes out of the "social programs and infrastructure" bucket or the "blow up children in the Middle East" bucket.