>>You may still be found guilty by association. Only these guys are too smart - they first buy a law which makes their particular form of theft legal. And the court of history, they don't care about that. Apres mois, le deluge.
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>And yet you don't see appropriation by the state of private wealth to be making a particular form of theft legal ? <s>

If I'm not seriously mistaken, one of the milestones of democracy is that a republic is a res publica, a public thing, hence the state shouldn't be allowed to appropriate anything inappropriate, i.e. what is not agreed upon. Giving to the state is a legalized pooling of means for a common cause.

Now if someone buys a law by which your private wealth is somehow contributing more than theirs, well, fix the system to do it in a way which will satisfy the most and still deliver the goods.

>The objection is to those who make themselves feel righteous by "doing good "spending other people's money. <g>

Righteous? Dang, they should feel responsible, and be hung by their spheres if they swindle it out.