I mean you happily use the services that taxes provide. Police, the legal system, roads, schools, libraries, anything created using the legal system, roads, schools or libraries, fuel exploration subsidies, research, etc. To use your hyperbolic analogy, using them without paying for them would be theft, therefore trying to mark taxation as immoral is trying to get out of paying for the services you use, which is in itself immoral and attempted theft.
Finally, if you don't like paying taxes that much, you have a couple of options: a. you can not make any money, or b. you can get a boat and live in international waters. Ironically, you would still be benefiting from services provided through taxation, namely sea lane protection from piracy provided by the US Navy, paid for with taxes.
No, calling it anything but theft is "intellectually dishonest".
I mean you happily use the services that taxes provide. Police, the legal system, roads, schools, libraries, anything created using the legal system, roads, schools or libraries, fuel exploration subsidies, research, etc.
No, I don't happily use any of those things. I grudgingly use (some of) them because A. the State usually doesn't allow any other choices, and B. my stolen money was used to pay for them, so I might as well derive some benefit from it. But since the initial "transaction" was not voluntary, it's clearly theft.
Article I, Section 8, Clause 1: The Congress shall have Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
