content: That's not a good analogy.  That implies government benefits everyone.  The cost of asset forfeiture is higher than robbery and war and other government intervention is the most common way to die from unnatural cuases for a world (population)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_anthropogenic_disasters_by_death_toll].  The death toll of the Iraq war has reached 500,000.  That's one sixth of the US population.  Government is more like everyone eating a pizza covered in glass and asking everyone to pay for it, and it's also the only food made available, and if you try to make some food for other people to enjoy that doesn't have glass that's separatism and if you just do it without asking you get killed.  If you ask it doesn't happen.