The word ‘steal’ was used ironically. If I looked at you, and decided to write myself a law that allows me to monitor your every move and communication, and I c

The word ‘steal’ was used ironically. If I looked at you, and decided to write myself a law that allows me to monitor your every move and communication, and I charge you for that monitoring through unavoidable taxes, and I keep the accounting of the costs protected from public scrutiny, and I always remind you it’s done for your security, and me and my friends are making loads of money from the surveillance game, raising the prices and adding more security and justifying more reasons to do so, how do you know it’s not stealing?