Taxation is always theft but there aren't cheap private security agencies that be competitor to countries, to make my safe against other countries and bandits.
The other side of that is, most countries have enough troubles of their own that they wouldn't attack without having been attacked first.
The only reason why other nations might be prompted to fight the U.S. is, the U.S. has a military presence in over 100 foreign nations. Other countries are scared of the U.S.
The founding fathers of the USA wanted the U.S. to stay out of the affairs of other nations. We don't have to be there. We could live our lives apart from them, over here. And if our intelligence community reported their military build-up, advertising would get us to donate to our military defenses. We don't need taxation. Taxation is what makes our "leaders" think they have the right and ability to be world conquerors.
