Good guys hate taxes; bad guys love them.
And even I, myself [Mosiah -- a good guy], have labored with mine own hands that I might serve you, and that ye should not be laden with taxes. Mosiah 2:14
And he [Zeniff -- a bad guy] laid a tax of one fifth part of all they possessed. Mosiah 11:3
He [Riplakish -- a bad guy] did tax them with heavy taxes. Ether 10:5