No I am not. Taxes are not theft unless they are levied without representation. 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? Would you say the same about taxes for other services that you might not directly benefit from such as libraries or parks?
Private is best but I do see a role for limited LOCAL government funded aid when private charities can not do it all themselves.
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.