I'm all conflicted here. On the one hand, I'm very much against sleazy companies withholding wages from their employees. Such companies deserve to be slapped

I'm all conflicted here. On the one hand, I'm very much against sleazy companies withholding wages from their employees. Such companies deserve to be slapped down, hard. On the other hand, I'm very much against the government taking money without legally demonstrating that they should. "Money isn't property" is obviously BS, and is designed to exploit a loophole that lets them take anybody's money whenever they want to. On the third hand, making every administrative fine become a court case is almost certainly going to DOS the administrative functions of the government. That seems like a very bad outcome, especially when the administrative function is preventing sleazy companies from engaging in wage theft. So I guess I'm cheering for the company to lose the larger battle, the "money's not property" argument to get slapped down hard, and the administrative functions to continue to be able to operate, but not because of that rationalization. (nelox's statement at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893104 is pretty much what I was trying to say.)