If I stole $1 from you everyday I suspect you would still care every time I did it.

I don't think so. Most people in the US pay more than $400/yr in taxes which support things they claim to despise (though not all the same things, of course). Yet the vast majority of Americans do not seem to be upset about paying taxes, something which they typically have no choice in except not to make the money.

Once you've been stealing money for a while, it's relatively easy to convince people that it's okay "because it's always been this way".