Disorder imposes costs. People have over the centuries voluntarily voted governments to power to regulate and bring order to their society. Undoubtedly this can be overdone (government failure), but let's not forget that there is a strong underlying basis of market demand that underpins the existence of governments.
So long as people jointly tax themselves through their representative bodies, tax is a self-imposed cost for the provision of public goods. It is not theft since you - through your representatives - vote on it.
So are government benefits.
Disorder imposes costs. People have over the centuries voluntarily voted governments to power to regulate and bring order to their society. Undoubtedly this can be overdone (government failure), but let's not forget that there is a strong underlying basis of market demand that underpins the existence of governments.
So long as people jointly tax themselves through their representative bodies, tax is a self-imposed cost for the provision of public goods. It is not theft since you - through your representatives - vote on it.