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The issue of taxation is a red herring. So is the fact that he was an upstanding member of his community.
Imagine that a man [stole a necklace from a jewelery store/operated a car under the influence/started a fight in a bar/collected mob "protection money"/committed some minor crime to your liking]. Incidentally, this man also was a upstanding member of his community and always paid his taxes. The question is this: should he be punished according to the guidelines established by law?
My answer is an emphatic yes. It simply is bad social policy to not enforce the law on people just because you think they are nice guys. I am looking for liberty and justice for all, and that includes illegal immigrants. This fellow can have all the liberty he wants... after he is justly deported to his homeland.
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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