Robin Hood as an anti-tax Reaganite

Interesting take from Alex Massie on Robin Hood:

Robin really is an anti-tax warrior inspired by oppressive levels of taxation that have enslaved and impoverished the people, leaving them with barely enough for themselves.
He doesn't "steal" from the rich, he confiscates money from the state (and its officers) to return it to the taxpayers. In other words, philosophically and instinctively, he's a Reaganite and, frankly, one would not be surprised to see Robin explain, over a haunch of venison, that if only the state listened to reason it might appreciate that the levels of taxation it imposes upon the peasantry are at Laffer Curve* levels and that productivity, revenues and happiness might all increase if taxes were lowered to a more reasonable, justifiable level.

I'm willing to buy Massie's assertion. I have never thought of Robin Hood as a socialist or a fervent believer in social justice, but rather as someone who believe fanatically that government wasn't entitled to take the people's money, that is to tax them.

Thus, in a weird way, Robin Hood has more in common with Ron Paul than with Dennis Kucinich or Ralph Nader.