Theft is a violation of law.
Law is a product of the political process.
The political process is a formal means of establishing consensus.
Ergo, theft is defiance of the consensus.
Taxation is established via law.
Law is a product of the political process.
The political process is a formal means of establishing consensus.
Ergo, taxation is compliance with the consensus.
• theft is defiance
• taxation is voluntary compliance
Taxation is the opposite of theft.
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Taxation is definitively extortion. Theft is arbitrary. Your notion of consensus is hardly reflective of reality. The outcomes of the political process represent the current dynamic of power, not consensus.