I agree. The church and the government taxed the people into submission. Robin re-appropriated taxes.
Difficult to make a distinction between the two, even after Henry VIII's kerfluffle with Rome. The Anglicans just picked up where the "papists" left off, after warring back and forth for a while. Seems like our own founding fathers took issue with this, themselves.
If only they had borrowed and spent the money first, it wouldn’t have been as easy to reappropriate the money, since innocent third parties like lenders were now going to be hurt.