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.
Cant speak for United States, but in Europe overwhelming majority of fees and taxes are being redistributed to welfare and health care with only about 5% used on defense.
That doesnt mean "means justify the end" however. Vast governments (with as much as 10% of population directly employed by it) consume alot of tax revenue just to sustain itself, also the concept of "social justice" take precedence before both families and God in these secular countries. What does it mean in practice is complete disconnect between those who are net givers and those who are only takers. Basically, putting the former into the role of unwilling slaves.
This obssesion with equality of results and not opportunities took alot of vitality and life out of Europe.