It is coercive theft to take tax money for purposes other than those which are the province of government. Rambam (Hilchot Melachim 4:10) says that the central government has four functions: advancing Tora, establishing justice (thus, it could be, as Rav Yuval Cherlow has suggested, that the central government can establish the “rules of the game” in the economic sphere), national security and fighting crime (in a federal system – which is also the ideal Jewish system as set forth in Hilchot Sanhedrin 1:1 – there could be a differentiation between local and national crime as set forth in the first mishna of Sanhedrin).
Tzedaka is the function of the communities and individuals (Hilchot Matanot Ani’im 9:1-3).This is not only more efficient as the central government cannot deal with poor people according to their individual needs (ibid 7:3) or effectively weed out phonies.In addition, the existence of government programs gives people an excuse not to help because “the government will take care of him”.
Nowhere does he say that government should subsidize, for example, sports or “cultural” activities.I submit that these subsidies constitute robbing those who are not interested in them to give to htose who are in the form of lower ticket prices.