If "A" has no proper power to take "B's" property, can he delegate any such power to the sheriff? No. Even if everyone in the community desires that "B" give his extra horse to "A", they have no right individually or collectively to force him to do it.
They cannot delegate a power they themselves do not have.
So...If I don't have the authority as an individual citizen to force my neighbor to pay me $50 before he takes his car out on to the street (by force of arms and threat of grave bodily injury or death), a street which we both own, can I delegate authority I don't have to a bureaucrat at the Dept. of Motor Vehicles?
I can if I'm a lawyering politician and can get everybody to buy into my brand of self-serving socialism.
http://taor.agitator.dynip.com/on_law.htm I'm with you on that. I don't understand people that think they have a right to other peoples money...