Oh, our intellectual never uses the term plunder. The term he uses is redistribution. But taxation is plunder. Plunder is the taking of property by force. Taxation, also, is the taking of property by force.
Plunder perpetrated by government is still plunder.
Plunder is still plunder, and taxation is still plunder, no matter how many people are in favor of it. Government may use the loot it plunders in many ways. Or government officials may line their pockets with the loot. But what government does with the loot does not change the fact that government obtains its loot by force, by plunder. He is not the brilliant, humane man of compassion that he thinks he is.