> If someone really did get hit first and they defended themselves, that’s not two wrongs.
You are conflating rhetoric with retaliation. When a bully says, “Well, he hit me first!” he is rationalizing his own evil, not seeking any sort of justice.
> Also, accepting government contracts for proper government functions and getting paid for doing the agreed upon work is not mooching.
It is receiving stolen funds. There is no getting around this. The state does not have any right to confiscate and redistribute the funds. Whatever you tell yourself about propriety is trumped by the fact that the money involved was stolen. An involuntary transaction is a crime, and “proper” cannot mean anything in the context of a crime.
The State has the force to do as it pleases. They are called the police. If one resists [does not comply] with the State’s directive[s],one will have deadly force applied against them by the State. The State is compriesd by individuals put in power one way or the other by the citizens. When good people are put in positions of power, there is nothing to worry about. However in the last few elections, the citizens of the United States has said, via the voting process, that they preferred evil people ruling over them. It is being done.