> Once the government has it, that money is the government's money. Maybe in the sense, like in Office Space, that "it becomes ours", but not in any real way.

> Once the government has it, that money is the government's money. Maybe in the sense, like in Office Space, that "it becomes ours", but not in any real way. The government is the public entity; its things are everyone's things. The fact that it (with few exceptions) acts like a private entity, with entitlement to its plunder, doesn't change anything about this.