It is his money. Money was just civilization’s answer to the problem of trading real items. Sure, me trading the 3 chickens I raised for 3 gallons of milk worked fine at the dawn of cilvilzation, but assigning a dollar value to the product and trading dollars back and forth is much easier. The government doesn’t own the dollar any more than it owns the chicken. Government doesn’t own ANYTHING, the people do.
And what Joe wants to do is take the 3 chickens I worked so hard to raise and give one to the guy who has none, because somehow his lack of chickens is my problem.