Taxation is not theft or an act of thieving. Taxation is our share that we must give back to society that transforms into government welfare services and others.
Your statement might have been true a few decades back. But now, most of the tax revenue is being spent on the defense budget, and for giving salaries to the governmental staff.
I will support your statement that taxation is not a
Theft, actually it is a legal matter even in the bible it is written there that we need to pay for tax to our government.