No more than it is theft for you to drive down a toll road and not pay the toll. Or utilize the water system when you didn't help build it or better yet access the internet when how much did you help build those? Even the water company and telecommunication company you pay each month to use that service more than likely didn't invest in the system you're using, they simply maintain it and are regulated not to charge you an arm & a leg to do so.
Sadly for you, you don't understand that there are some places where all of those services are private and you are not forced to pay for them.
My water company, internet company, phone company are all private companies that I don't have to use and they have competing companies so you go with the best service for you.
Everything, and yes I literally mean EVERYTHING, can be taken care of privately without the government. Open your fucking minds and realize that taking money from people under the thread of violence is a pretty shitting thing to do. Call it theft, call it extortion, call it whatever you want...it's pathetic and wrong.
You are so right! The government sucks at everything, see these two cases in the last month illustrating massive government waste of taxpayer money.