Helvidius
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Perhaps you should view it as
You live in an apartment, you are expected to pay rent, you dont pay rent you get evicted.
Or if it is a condo, the condo board which is elected decides on how much the condo fees are, which if you dont pay said condo fees, you can have your wages garnished or the condo foreclosed on. Meaning you get kicked out of the apartment
But to assume you are merely renting suggests you don't own the land. In your analogy there is no such thing as private property. The government owns everything and the people own nothing.
I think it is a legitimate question to ask if there is private property when you are forced to pay taxes on the land you supposedly own. Now it could be argued that you have a say in what you are taxed because you vote and therefore it is not theft because you have agreed on the taxes in your area.