Thats just your opinion. You are outvoted.
Cue Fred tearfully comparing his plight to people being tortured and killed in Bahrain.
Theft has no conditional element to it. Just cuz you make a law to permit theft, doesn't make it more benevolent.
Cue Hawker being slowly boiled like a frog in a pot. Do I smell cooked flesh? Let me know when it gets too hot for you.
We've been though that. If its the state, its not theft. Its a legal thing.