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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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cmv: Taxation in a highly corrupt society IS theft

Take my country. An eastern European country that shall not be named.
It is a country where the taxation is at insane levels. Almost 60% in tax per minimum wage.
Public employees, who do nothing, are hired on nepotism, relations and influence.
Private sector workers PAY for these leeches who in turn treat them like garbage.
Public sector pay is 200% that of private sector pay. Inflation is driven by these people too.
Roads are a mess and there are almost no highways or high speed rail. In fact rail speed is SLOWER now than it was 100 years ago.
Hospitals are a mess. Doctors do not have tools.
Judges, police and armed forces are allowed to retire at age 40, with pensions that are higher than the income of the EX PRESIDENT OF THE GODDAMN UNITED States (Obama).

Is it too much of a stretch to say in this case Taxation *IS* theft??
Yes yes I know, anCaps are idiots, right, right. But God dammit I am fed up fattening rich corrupt assholes.
And this coming from a leftist!
gpt
Well yes, if the money is being embezzled or misused, then that is when it is being stolen. 

That doesn't mean taxation is *inherently* theft, which is what the phrase "taxation is theft" is meant to convey. If you can say that taxation is sometimes theft, but sometimes not theft, depending on the way it's used, then you would not agree it is *inherently* theft.