> Most people that say Taxation is theft aren't literally calling for zero taxes though. It's just a saying, and definitely a hyperbole.

Then the best thing would be to just stop saying it, and discuss the substantive issues instead. The real issues of what functions need funding, by how much, and how, is a never-ending debate that isn't helped by trite aphorisms, even if, superficially, they seem to cut the Gordian knot.