Taking money from a rich man by force to give to a poor man is still robbery.
Robin Hood was a thief!
I’ve always believed this was a mixed story.
God can let such things happen when there is a vacuum of His people bearing forth His grace into the world. As Jesus said, if the people won’t praise, the stones will cry out.
Government is a lousy church but people still look to it when the actual churches are etiolated.