April 18 is Theft Day for 2023. Also known as tax day, income taxes are due. Behind the IRS tax form is a gun. The IRS has 4,487 guns and 5,062,006 rounds of ammunition (2017 GAO data). Why? Because income tax is theft.
Of course, the immature child from Lowell, Massachusetts didn’t take into account that he was caught on video committing the crime and that he had admitted as much via text to Cox.
The government’s largest expenditure is Social Security. Nearly a trillion dollars is spent on Social Security benefits (paying back the money that politicians stole from people throughout their lives via taxation).
Essentially, they already stole money from a few people, so they will not have to steal additional money from the general public to fund this new contract.
There is no effective moral or emotional argument that government (especially federal) should forcefully take someone’s money and give it to another. In light of this being enforced ultimately by violence, it is the definition of armed robbery.