Certainly if you live in this country and earn money you have no option but to pay taxes, and it's possible to look at it as coercion if you want to. As I said, I prefer to think of it as me paying the government's wages, because that way I can get incensed because I don't think they're earning them. If they're stealing the taxes from me, they don't have any obligation to do anything for me. Also, when something does work properly, like a road or rubbish collection or the police or something, I can think "that's what happened to those taxes I paid" and feel glad that something I paid towards works for other people as well.

But in any case, once the money is taken, whether it's stolen or paid willingly, it's not ours any more, in any meaningful sense. We can't spend it or save it or do anything with it, unless it gets given back. I've found that it's best to accept these things and move on. And I'd certainly rather pay taxes than live without maintained roads and rubbish collections and the police and so on.