>>My objection has been, and continues to be with the use of "We need to ...".
"We need to pay more tax" - no problem with your interpretation.
"We need to watch out" - entirely different context with little or no impact on others who may disagree and no possible interpretation that others are to be forced to "watch out" whether they want to or not.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
