Indeed, taxes are not theft especially when people take full advantage of other things the state offers - simple example: the road to your house. But it does h

Indeed, taxes are not theft especially when people take full advantage of other things the state offers - simple example: the road to your house. But it does highlights the asymmetry of power. The state holds the people to a much higher standard than what the state itself is willing or able to offer back. The state will never be held to this kind of standard when owing you money. Either by adjusting the law or by simply never applying the same strict outcome to themselves (imagine that no Government building would ever be subjected to this should their tax not be payed for any reason). And in places where the people care little about righting some wrongs or are tricked into thinking this is what they actually want you end up with absurd situations like this. Losing a house for an $8 debt.