Guess what: most intelligent people understand that government and public services are a good thing, and that taxes are necessary to have them.
Most intelligent people 300 years ago thought people could be owned, leeches were medicine, and that outer space was filled with ether. The logical fallacy you are making is called
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum.
I am not advancing that fact that as
proof that governments are good. The point is that calling taxation "stealing from the people" is not reasonable, since most people believe (rightly or wrongly) that taxes are necessary and everybody should pay them.
Of course, many or even most people may think that
certain taxes are unjustified or unfair, and that
certain government spending is waste. That does not invalidate the point.