Couldn't you also say, "If you pay taxes on it, it is never truly yours." ?
or even simpler......you rent it from the government.
What a sad decline from the vision of the founders, where our rights were endowed upon us at the moment of our individual creation, and that the government is only legitimate if it recognizes and respects those natural rights.
So, after a few hundred year experiment, the net result is that we basically got rid of the swords and watery maidens.