There is no functional difference between a tax break and a subsidy. And everything is private property only if a sovereign authority says it is. Much of it is not even remotely justifiable even by the most generous Lockean assumptions. But it remains private property because an entity with the power to do so has deemed it so.

> everything is private property only if a sovereign authority says it is

This is simply untrue. Private property proceeds the existence of the modern state.

Many parts of the world have extremely weak states, yet a distinction between private and public property remains.

Arguably, the states role is to ensure private property protections are available to the weak and the powerful, not just the powerful.

“The commons” - in the European and British sense were/are public property long before a meaningful state became involved.

Both s public and private property proceed modern states, and can have their origin in customary law as much as legal statutes.

Claims of ownership are only as legitimate as the potential to do violence to assert such claims.

Authority isn’t always rooted in force or threat of force.

“The commons” is/was publicly owned, but without any real threat of force behind it.

The commons was managed in a decentralized manner, but indeed there were consequences for violating the written or unwritten rules.

And government was often involved in managing them historically.

Hence the poem:

>The law locks up the man or woman

Who steals the goose off the common

But leaves the greater villain loose

Who steals the common from the goose.

That's great. Here's it set to music.

https://mainlynorfolk.info/folk/songs/thegooseandthecommon.h...

and wikipedia on the Enclosure acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclosure_Acts

> Private property proceeds the existence of the modern state.

Stop intimating that private and personal property are the same. Private property is enforcable only by coordinated violence. Its manifestations in the past (serfdom, slavery etc) have been universally agreed to be negative.

> Both s public and private property proceed modern states, and can have their origin in customary law as much as legal statutes.

You're still conflating personal and private property here.

Sovereign authorities also precede the existence of states.

Da comrade, even "your" life belongs to the state, and you should feel fortunate they permit you to keep it!