Apart from tax payers money is there no other ways government generate revenue? My country is rich in mineral resources which is basically enough to hand most of the government budgets of every year without tax payers money.
Aside from tax government makes money from tourism, investment, trades government owned company and so much more, but in developing countries government makes good sum of money through tax.
A country that has so much opportunities for their occupants and has a functional ecosystem feels the occupants owe them a huge gratitude and this gratitude are collected through tax, but this tax can be so ridiculous that at the end of the day the occupants have nothing much saved up.