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Sure you can. You can round up everybody in the country and make them your slaves. You can force them to work in factories, running on treadmills to generate electricity, convince them that they need government to protect them from the Boogey-man who will do even worse things to them.. etc. etc.
If you do this to a largely sedentary population, a people who are content eating fruits from the trees, root from the earth and sleeping all day long then you can arguably say that the government has created wealth.
Yes, I am playing the devil’s advocate with a deliberate purpose. My purpose is to make you all think differently of government acgtion. I think we should criticize government action by saying that it is morally wrong for them to force their particular form of wealth creation instead of just saying that the government can not create wealth.