Personally, I do feel it is theft, I never consented to any taxation. I feel that this video helps explain the video quite well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGMQZEIXBMs
no it is not, if and only if it will be used properly, if taxes were used properly everything in thecountry will be great, there will be no mendicants roaming around and the facilities and infrastructure as well as the public service will be of high level.
Taxation is not a theft, people in the society are the beneficiaries of tax especially our children's studying in public schools, free tuition in colleges etc.
If you don't think taxation is theft, then it is not theft for you.
Imagine that you hear a knock at the door in the middle of the night. You open the door, and there stands a burglar with a mask on. He asks you if he can have a bunch of your valuables. You say, "Yes. Come on in." Is he really a burglar when you invite him in?
Just because you think that Government gives you a bunch of benefits in return for your tax money, how do you know? If you go to the store to buy some products, when you check out at the cash register, you pay for your purchases, and YOU GET A RECEIPT with an itemized list of products you purchased, and how much you paid for them. Do you ever get such a receipt from the taxing authority?
How much of your tax dollar went for the military? How much went for each aspect of infrastructure? How much went to Government officials so they could play? How much went pay for pedophile prostitution and murder for Government officials? How much went to pay for the lying financial analysts who prepared the false lists and pie graphs that show where your money went?
If you knowingly and voluntarily pay taxes, then you also knowingly and voluntarily pay for corruption - bribery, murder, pedophile prostitution, and anything else that is corrupt in the world.
I don't want to take part in paying for the corruption. And to start, I would rather knowingly buy what I want, including buying Government services if I want them.
For me taxation is robbery, and at times theft.
