Very few people suddenly "become rich", they have either developed a company over many years or worked their way up through company ranks to ever higher salaries. During that time you have progressively paying more tax as you move through the different tax bands based on earnings. At the lowest rungs of salaries, you might pay 20% on your earnings and at the highest you might start paying 40%+ on earnings but the change happens gradually. You seem to think that taxes are inherently bad and is just a one way street, you pay money for nothing in return. However, unless you have a completely corrupt and/or incompetent government you are paying for things that are used throughout society and many things that you may never encounter, like prisons.
Taxes follow a curve similar to a bell in which those at the opposite sides, those that are incredibly rich and those that are very poor, do not pay much in terms of taxes, but as you begin to move to the center, the taxes you need to pay grow significantly, as we must remember that we pay taxes not only when we do so explicit to the government, but we do so when we make almost any transaction, the issue is that while I can understand those that have nothing to pay a low amount of taxes too, it is a problem when the rich do it, as there are people out there which are billionaires and that pay less taxes than we do, and this is clearly unfair.