Truism - (about taxation)

Taxation is the the paymaster of society.

We don't like it but we need some

Personal thought - This truism is a dynamic balancing act between total societal conformance or insurrection leading to anarchy. In large(r) populations people want "services" but don't like paying for them. Taxation facilitates services but it is the scale and apparent effectiveness  of taxation that vexes society; too little leads to trouble(s) and too much leads to trouble(s).

The most despised forms of taxation  are those that are manifestly unfair or disproportionately loaded upon tax payers. Let me just say the mega-rich are getting richer as everyone else gets poorer and the national debt is becoming ever deeper because money is wasted or not actually being acquired from those mega-rich individuals or businesses that persistently find ways to not pay any tax at all.