The power of the government to tax the general public is the type of power that definitely affects the general public -- for part of what they have labored diligently for has been taken away from them by the government. Indeed, when it comes to taxation, it has to be recognized that the more money that gets into the hands of the government, the more responsibility that the government has to do right by those who are its constituents. So then, as much as the people are busy taking care of necessary things and the urgencies of the day, they do most definitely have a vested interest in where and how their tax dollars are allocated and thereby spent, for those governments that are irresponsible or corrupt will thereby take those tax monies and use such for purposes which are not for the general welfare of the people, at all.
In life, it has to be recognized that the material things that we accumulate ultimately come from spending the money that we have in hand, or through the good credit that we have established, and when we lack that money or our credit is bad, we have far fewer options that permit us to take care of our business. So then, a government that is starved of money for whatever reason(s) is a government that is already circumscribed because there is only so much that a government of limited monies is capable of doing. This signifies that the more tax dollars that a government has, while not necessarily being bad, could be dangerous to the general public, whenever that government does not act responsibly by the people that it has an obligation to do right by.
In truth, how and where our tax monies are spent makes a material difference in our personal lives, which means that it can easily make a difference in our freedom and liberty, or lack thereof, for whenever a government takes those tax dollars and spends an inordinate amount of such on the military of which those in the military do not readily answer to the people, but rather answer to those that are its generals or the politicians and elites of the day, then the people should rightly be troubled, for it is their labor taxed through governmental authority that thereby has permitted that government to militarized itself, which under the wrong type of leadership could use that sword against its own people, in order to feather its own nest, at the direct expense of the people.
So then, the power to tax is also the power to have more control of the people, and thereby to limit their liberty, which when the representatives of this nation have been effectively captured by the elites, and the courts are not truly independent, we are left only with the executive branch, which when that branch cares more about control and exploitation of the people, then it must be said that those that believe that taxation without fair representation represents tyranny, are correct in their assessment that this is not in their best interests and hence not tolerable for them.