we pay taxes all the time, you may not even realize it but when you buy something, read the receipt as it mentions the tax you paid. you pay taxes over and over being poor, no one is exempted. centuries ago people wage war all because the government is collecting tax from the hard-earned money by people but now we are used to it already that even if they increase the rates, we're all obedient.
Of course we all do pay taxes. To be precised we pay taxes via incomes and also purchases but quite trickish by the government that they extract these taxes from the people in most unknowingly manners such as increase of goods and service charges or likely to say inflation. That's when the government sights that even the poor laments on why asked to pay taxes even when they ain't accountable to making income in any ways.
Rather the obvious task payers are the income earners which the rate of their taxes is depended on their incomes rate.