Have you ever thought about this, what we are trying to achieve in our personal financial life is completely diverge from what the government expects their citizens to do.
We as Individuals always thrive to achieve financial independence in our lives especially someone who is from the average middle person but what the government expects from the middle class is different and is kind of surprising when we give deep thought about it, 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.
So as a result we are paying from 10% to over 50% of our earnings just in the form of taxes in one or another way. So one who really wants to achieve financial independence should find a way to reduce their tax pay legally like how the businessmen do.
Or like the bald guy says, we need to find a way to exit the Matrix.

Taxes go hand in hand with earning and salary, they are not opposed to each other. Taxes the government raises are meant to be pooled together and collectively make all the shared resources that we use cheaper to support. There are certain things that are much more efficient when you pool large amounts of money together and get cheaper when the economies of scale get better. Do you suggest that everyone pays to have their own individual roads? That does not seem practical on any level. It also helps to fund safety nets, like the fire service or providing help to the least fortunate in society or those who are transitioning between jobs as different industries cycle up and down.