Yes, you are. You just don't want to admit it.
If LOCAL tax payers agree to use local tax money to give last resort aid to the poor people in their community how is that theft?
It's not voluntarily given and it's taken under the threat of force. That's theft.
Would you say the same about taxes for other services that you might not directly benefit from such as libraries or parks?
Yes.
Face it, you're countenancing theft. You just don't have a problem with it because you agree with why it's being stolen. That's how you rationalize it. It doesn't make it right of course, but it salves your conscience enough for you to live with it.
But theft is theft. It doesn't matter how many people say it's ok or what the booty is being stolen for, it's still theft. There's no taxing jurisdiction anywhere in the country that gets a 100% approval. And if just one person doesn't want his money taken from him at the point of a Government gun, it's theft.
That's the fact.
“It’s not voluntarily given and it’s taken under the threat of force. That’s theft”
What threat of force? Putting it up before the populace for a vote is threat of force? Since when?
So taxes are theft unless ???? Help me out here. Since when was it ever argued that a tax had to have 100% approval to be non theft?
What bout fire service, police, local schools (a dream I know wihile Fed Dept of Ed exists)road improvements, water and sewer, drainage, new roads and disaster response and relief? Do you think any of these are always seen as being good use of tax dollars by 100% of the population?
Fine argue that you don’t believe in any government money being spent to help poor people but to argue that taxes must be approved by 100% of the population is nonsense.