It's stolen money that rightfully belongs to the taxpayers. Government simply usurped it and now decides what is to be done with it - a denial of the fundamental choice of that money's rightful owners. That being the case, I'd simply rather not get it than have a greasy piece of pork with all the government mess attached to it.
Take Metro for the perfect case - theoretically, when Tom DeLay blocks Metro from getting federal funding, he's preventing the "taxpayer's money" from being "returned" to Houston. Yet you have to ask yourself - do you want that money to go to Houston in the first place seeing as it will be used to build a light rail line that we don't need and that will cause a headache and traffic jam for millions of commuters every year? I'd rather have nothing than a money for a light rail line because that government funded light rail line makes my community a less desirable place to live.
I also detest bicyclists and would rather not have them on a government funded trail in my community, so Tom Daschle can have the bike trails for all I care. Let them be his headache as they dart out into traffic, oblivious to street lines and stop signs and under the absurd impression that they somehow have equal rights with an automobile to use our roadways for their 10mph enviro-friendly foot powered scraps of non-self-standing fender denting aluminum.