You are right, paying taxes is good for the entire community as they provide all those things you have mentioned. If we do care we should at least pay some instead of avoiding or evading it. We won't be making ourselves poor if we lost a part of our salary to help the government. It is also a way of helping oneself. Who would care to help you pass safely on a road that has been concreted well if you and others didn't pay taxes? Who would have paid teachers of the government to teach your child for free if you and others did not pay taxes? And so many other things worth mentioning. We should help one another on this. Pay taxes not because it is required but because you really care for everybody.