Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
Taxes should be simple and fair... I'm not for increasing income taxes - if we even have an income tax.
People think of taxes as money just being robbed from you. They don't consider the benefits of paying taxes. The benefits that they get and also the benefit of just being a part of a large group of people: a town, or a city, or a country, or a society that allegedly should stand together and all try to help each other.
Nobody is opposed to paying taxes; governments need to coordinate, work together and simplify the law.
It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.
But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
You don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.
It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.
The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.