I'm philosophically a libertarian, and that goes to not trying to have the government enforce my cultural standards (outside of the criminal code) on others.
I think that would make you a
civil libertarian, along with (hopefully) everyone on this board, members of the ACLU, and similar groups. The libertarian social platform has some good ideas. It's their economic platform where they go completely off into space. For example: theft.
Taxation is only "theft" when libertarians disagree with what the purposes to which tax money is going. They like the military but they don't like welfare, so they call the latter theft. It's as simple as that. Both constitute "income seizure".
Everyone can benefit from the welfare system. You can apply for unemployment if you lose your job, libertarians just choose not to. In the same way the army will defend a pacifist Green who opposes military spending on moral grounds.
Now obviously you can take the welfare state too far, and there is a lot of waste. You can go too far in the opposite direction as well, and get people locked into crushing poverty with no job, no health care, no prospects. That breeds crime or in extreme circumstances revolution. So welfare does end up benefitting everyone indirectly.
The challenge for us is to provide a social safety net for the needy while not creating a culture of dependency. That is, unless you're a libertarian. In that case the challenge is to see who can badmouth the government the most.