we agree on the bolded
the answer isn't to hire 87000 more IRS agents to hunt people down to take more taxes from them
No...the reason for the 87K IRS agents is to help collect on the $1T we lose out on every single year because we don't have enough people in place to enforce our bloated tax code.
Again, you make it sound like it's the governments money. It's my money. It's your money. And here comes the government to take our lunch money because they say so.
Taxation is theft.
I'm as fiscally conservative as most staunch fiscal conservatives, but the bold is just legally errant. It's not theft when the populace consents to living in the jurisdictions with such taxes and the government is comprised of elected officials stemming from the populace.
To use your analogy, taxation is simply akin to somebody going out for lunch and having to pay the bill as advertised on the menu or whatever. I assume you don't think it's "theft" of the eatery to charge for the lunch provided after having given fair and adequate notice of the cost, right?
If you genuinely think taxation is theft I seriously hope you never:
- drive on public roads that don't have a separate toll
- expect police, firefighters, and our military to respond/protect you when you need it
- go to libraries
- use free wifi hosted by a municipality or other government agencies
- send your kid to public schools
- etc.