The Government highly relies on the middle-class tax payers for the money and most of the taxes collected in the form of indirect taxes so that people may not actually aware that they are paying taxes for everything from their salary, fuel, medicine, anything everything has taxes that eat most our earnings.
The government of a country earns income in different ways depending on the citizens of that country. Even the government earns income by taxing the income and expenditure of the citizens. To do business, the government is taxed in various ways, and even if the merchant's product is to be bought by the common consumer, the common consumer has to pay tax. Any employment or business has to pay income tax. And the middle class has the most trouble to pay taxes. Most of their earnings go to doing these things on top of the price hike.