Government has nothing that it doesn't first steal. Any government funding of weightlifting is pure and utter evil and I would have nothing but total disdain for it.
Well, everyone you want the government to steal from cares. Certainly, I care. Any such theft to subsidize weightlifting is pure evil.
Its not really complicated. Government takes things from people by use of physical force and-or the threat of physical force- the very definition of theft. There is no possible justification for making people pay to subsidize other people lifting weights, if any theft could ever be justified. Its just another example of how government is nothing but a tool of the masses to try and rob each other. The idea of stealing from anyone to fund something so unimportant, let alone stealing from the handicapped, the poor, etc, is simply evil, is no different than if I went out and robbed people personally to fund my weightlifting.