Editor,
The photos of taxpayers holding up fists full of $1s and $20s found scattered on the freeway is an image I won’t easily forget. Maybe it takes a lawyer to explain the difference between “free money” and “stealing.”
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Isn’t it theft, when you take and keep something that doesn’t belong to you, but to someone else?
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