You bring up some great points!
I'm not 100% positive that theft is the correct term, but I definitely think taxes are unjustified in many aspects. The way I am seeing it is: if people support a system and enjoy it being around, they should have the choice to fund it and continue funding it by their own will, not by a law that forces them to give up a certain percentage of their earnings. Wishful thinking maybe, but that is what dreamers do, and doers start with.
With taxes, we have no choice and can even be handed a legal sentence if we avoid paying them. That is like someone holding handcuffs in front of you and saying 'give me your money or I take your freedom'. Putting it that way, I'd say taxes are a more of a threat than simply theft.
"Do you have sovereign rights on everything you have come to control as part of society and taking advantage of all the public goods society has provided you with?"
From the majority of public perspectives on this issue in the US, yes. Anything that you earn (money) and purchase (with money) is legally yours. In fact, lawsuits would not happen without this fact, as every lawsuit boils down to money/assets. Someone owing something of theirs to someone else, for x amount of reasons. This implies rights of ownership.
"You mention centralized government becoming void. What do you think will or could replace it? Wouldn't that be another form of government and could it function without any form of taxation?"
I am not sure what exactly would replace it, as that is far above my mental capacities to imagine on my own. Right now we are seeing a blossoming of myriads of decentralized platforms coming into existence, that operate without taxation. They do require funding, but so does anything in this world to operate on a massive scale, like non-profit organizations for example. Do I think a government could exist in this way? Sure! Why not? Less room for corruption!
"You mention steemit as an alternative..."
I wasn't meaning to imply that Steemit could replace a government (but that would be an interesting world, a social media based government....hmmm), I was pointing to Steemit as an example of how society is changing so rapidly. Steemit is a great example since it is the first successful social media platform to exist on blockchain tech. Blockchain technology itself might be an even better example!
"If it wasn't for government and taxes, the internet wouldn't exists and steemit couldn't exists without the internet."
That's a bold claim.... I am not so sure. People have a habit of coming together to create things, so maybe if the internet wasn't made possible by a government it would have been realized by another giant entity of sorts. Or maybe something similar but completely different would have come into existence. That is a hypothetical rabbit hole I don't want to travel too far down.
RE: Is Taxation Theft?