content: It's important to listen to Paul's video here.  He states taxation is theft WHEN you take it from one group and give it to another.  This is not building roads, this is not national defense, this is not the FDA ensuring our food is safe.  This is something entirely different, but I'll engage with you on the bigger picture. If we don't have representation it stands to reason that the taxation is indeed theft because it is being taken without consent under the threat of violence. Ask yourself if you feel represented by Congress as a whole, let alone your single House Representative or two Senators.  Did you have representation for recently passed taxes? Ask yourself if you had representation in 1913 when the Federal Income Tax Act was passed the income tax was reinstated. Ask yourself if you had representation in 1980's when the national debt started it's unending expansion, then consider who pays the $220 billion in interest payments every year. Ask yourself if you had representation when the social safety nets of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security were passed. "Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1789.  Because of the fact that our book of laws/tax/regulations only grows and never shrinks we will forever remain under the tyranny of the previous generation.  NYC's 1845 "no mask" laws are a perfect example; digging up old legislation to arrest modern protesters.