Who likes to pay when there's nothing in return?
Reading your post sounded like you were talking about my country, i am from Nigeria by the way and most of what you said is also the situation in my country. Nigeria is blessed with natural resources, but where does all the government revenue go to? It is spent on paying politicians all sorts of allowances and paying for their luxury, you would be amazed at how much legislators earn in my country when you compare it to the minimum wage.
That said, i don't have a problem with paying my taxes, but i will feel a lot better if they were used to improve the standard of living to an acceptable level.
Actually many can relate with that. But as for the resources, I think yeah that Nigeria can excel over the others. It is not surprising anymore on why they are still poor but if only their governments are on their right minds, they can easily surpass some countries.
Politicians should not be given by a good salary if they are not doing their jobs well but this is also the reason on why they can kill only to get on their positions. About minimum wage, I think the employer are still free to increase it if they really wanted to but the problem is that many of them are also stingy. They are close to those kind of governments we are talking about earlier.
I think tax system is good to run the country because all people want facility in life and that is, possible by tax system but there should be fair tax application on all people. Rich people are paying no taxes on their assets and they have billions of dollars in the account and they are showing that they are in debt which is making the country in debt because these are important part of country and most of the industries are run by these people, these people could give tax easily but they claim that they are giving jobs and they deserve relief and they are the reason behind accumulation if tax from poor people but countries will stand when all people will give tax and government will be sincere with the people. The coordination between people and government is important to get rid of debt overload.