Question

In the past, when we were gatherers and hunters, we gathered or hunted whatever we managed to get; that was our share for that day, and anyone who stole our food was straightforwardly considered a thief.
Later we developed and organized ourselves into states, which by and large were lean states. The government, sometimes the monarchy, took from our food and property roughly what it needed to provide basic security, a justice system, governmental bureaucracy, and the needs of the royal household that ran everything.
True, sometimes with corruption, but still the responsibility for food and the ability to obtain it remained in the individual’s domain, and whoever stole from him was simply a thief.
Now we have a bloated state that has expanded itself into many additional areas like health, education, welfare, etc. Of course it takes much more of the tomatoes I managed to gather from the field, or from the factory, or from any other line of work, but it also gives much more.
That is, it expresses a social agreement for less independence, liberty, ownership, and responsibility regarding the property I honestly accumulated, because sometimes it takes a lot and sometimes it gives a lot, depending on its decisions about from whom and how much to take, and to whom and how much to give.
Now to the question:
In a situation of a bloated state that denied me even the most basic education and core studies because politically that brought certain parties into power, and in effect they sold my future and received power in return — that was the deal made at my expense — so that my ability to earn my bread honestly was badly harmed, and certainly reduced, by the government; and in any case the money I earn will not really be mine net, but only what the government allows me to keep, because it will take the rest; so ownership over the fruits of my labor is not really mine alone; and when I do not labor, the government will take from those who did labor and give to me… and the government is responsible for my problematic employment situation, since with its own hands it funded a system in which I cannot support myself honestly.
In such a situation, if I stretch out my hand for government money in various ways, would I be a thief in the halakhic-moral sense? Or within the framework of the bloated state and its responsibility, am I acting correctly and reasonably within the rules?
I feel that someone tied at least one of my hands, and probably forever, so that I can gather only a little. Isn’t it natural, right, moral, and just that when he turns around I should take from his pile whatever I can manage, in order to get back to the natural situation in which I could have gathered a lot with both hands, and only because he tied my hand I can’t gather?
 
(Yes, I know the stories about people who didn’t study and succeeded anyway… which supposedly means I bear personal responsibility for my situation… very often these are just made-up tales through and through, many times they received education at home and so on, and sometimes it’s a tiny percentage of exceptional geniuses or extremely diligent people. I’m not one of those, and most people aren’t either, and knowing full well that most of us would fall into poverty and backwardness, the government committed its crime — now let it pay…)