I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but I think a main point of the phrasing is a parallelism to the common libertarian meme of "taxation is theft", which is seen as similarly hyperbolic.
(Er, reading again, that's already in the post, in passing. Ah well.)
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Date: 2011-02-09 09:24 pm (UTC)From:(Er, reading again, that's already in the post, in passing. Ah well.)