You can't claim moral superiority over your government if you steal back from them.
Why does this confuse you? I take nothing from them.
Of course you're stealing.
It's like if you were a business owner and refused to pay the local mafia's "not breaking all your windows" fee. Of course that would be stealing, because you'd be getting the benefit of them not breaking your windows without paying like everybody else. Don't you think the honest, hard working thugs deserve compensation for the time and effort they devote to not breaking windows? They have kids to put through college and mortgages to pay, you know.