Except that it isn't. If you adopt that framing, you are working with a mindset that the government gets to figure out what to do with your money first and you

Except that it isn't. If you adopt that framing, you are working with a mindset that the government gets to figure out what to do with your money first and you get the leftovers. That is a completely different mindset than setting the expectation that the the people get to decide (via representatives) what money the government gets and how it should be spent. Those two mindsets are very different and I would argue is one of the ways that the left and the right are different.