You're comparing federal tax money with state tax money. State tax dollars often are guided by referendums, voted on by the people.
State or federal makes no difference to me. It's the intellectual concept that I'm questioning. We heard the same arguments against building the Morton Meyerson Symphony Center that we hear against raising funding for the NEA, but either way, it all ends up coming out of my paycheck. And the referendum business is a joke: they put new sports arenas on the ballot and sell them to idiots as some sort of magical, glittering, basketball-related Christmas gift that rich property owners will have to pay for, so of course poor people vote for them. Then, once it's half-built, suddenly, the cost estimate triples, and uh-oh! Turns out we have to raise sales taxes on your beer and cigarettes to pay for it. What a surprise.
All I'm saying is that if it's immoral for me to force someone at gunpoint to hand over part of his salary to pay for my preferred form of entertainment -- which I believe it is -- then it is equally immoral to force me to hand over my hard-earned money for pay for someone else's preferred form of entertainment. The whole concept should be abolished on every level.