I think in general cash flowing to people/businesess who are working for it is better than it going to the government. In this case, the "subsidy" is exactly proportional to work performed.
If you agree at all on having a government, then it needs some funding. And now, why should the government touch and move around more flows of money than are strictly necessary to fund it?
More money touched and redirected just leads to more corruption and rent-seeking.
If you want the government to have less money, let's just reduce eg the `sin tax on honest work' aka the income tax.
And if we're getting into the details, how do we allocate the trillions of dollars spent on the Middle East?