The Anarchists have long proclaimed that property was theft. The OWS jerks assert that any failure of the government to take over all property is a subsidy by corrupt government under the control of various property owners (who would not like their property taken by the government).
I propose that ‘theft’ has a meaning. It has a definition in law. If behavior is not in accordance with that definition, it is not theft.
Even if you don’t like that behavior.
And if the theft is unconstitutional?
Theft has meaning. It means taking someone’s rightful property against his will by force or deception. Taking money from taxpayers and giving it to team owners qualifies. If the government has that much excess cash uit should give it back in the form of tax cuts or rebates - to the people who have paid it.
Taxation for the legitimate purposes of government is legitimate, but taking from some people and giving to others, whether by taxation or eminent domain, is theft, actually robbery, because it’s taken by force, or threat thereof.