The alternative to capital punishment is longer sentences, but they would certainly cost the tax payers much money.

长期监禁是替代死刑的一个方式，但是这会使纳税人出更多的钱。

But he then began to wonder where all that tax money he paid actually went.

但他随后开始怀疑他缴纳的所有税款究竟去了哪里。

His job was to get the tax money from the people and give it to the king.

他的工作是从人民那里收取税款并将其交给国王。

In her desperation to obtain the tax money, no thought save Tara and the fate which threatened it had any place in her mind.

在她拼命为这那笔税金奔走时，除了塔拉和威胁它的命运之外，她没有想过什么别的。