What happens if you are in a third world country and there is massive corruption? You pay taxes and there are no roads, schools, or any essential public utilities. What you do see is the politicians and their cronies getting richer. Would you still argue that everybody should continue paying taxes?
Of course not, but we have to cut the root cause of the problem and that's corruption, if we can obtain a better and trustworthy politicians who aims to help the community and money is less prioritized I think we can soon have a better country. We usually dont see the essence of paying taxes since we only focus in the thing that it deducts our salaries, but in reality it was the reason to a better public infrastructures and services.