[Super_Jambo]

Pay them from general taxation to dig holes and fill them in again with spoons?

If you can only succeed because you're government is holding back others at the barrel of a gun do you really deserve to?

[s1artibartfast]

Business in physical property/goods also requires the government to hold others back with a barrel of a gun.

[AlotOfReading]

One of the key differences being that physical theft deprives the rightful owner of the property. It's not an analogous crime.

[freejazz]

I hope you don't mind when I come and take your computer.