I'm saying to make something legal, such as slavery, does not automatically make it right or change the meaning. Slavery is slavery whether it is legal or illegal. To make something illegal, such as pot prohibition, does not automatically make it "wrong".
Theft remains theft, if unauthorized taking occurred, REGARDLESS of who the perpretator was, you, me or government.
The same goes for taxation. Calling it "legal" does not change the fact that it is "unauthorized taking". Something being made legal
doesn't change the fact the "taking" is unauthorized. I cannot give your consent for you, nor you give my consent for me.
You seem to think that this entity known as government can give another person's consent for them. That is a fantasy, they can't give your consent for you any more than I can. You dismiss it as how things work in a democracy. True, but this country isn't a democracy, it was supposed to be a constitutional republic, but I digress.
I maintain, you and only you can give consent for yourself. The fact that it has been statutorily "made legal" does not change the fact you did not consent.
If you truly own something, you have the right to exercise control over it, that control can only be changed
in one of two ways, you GRANT it to somebody voluntarily, wherein there is no "theft". Or they TAKE it, without your consent, wherein theft has occurred. Now how does Government get their (your) money ?