Taxes are only for the poor people?

Taxes are, the price we pay for civilisation.
Voters tax themselves, among other things, for schools, roads, a health service, for welfare provision, to pay their soldiers and build a diplomatic corps.
When a group at the top of society secedes and forms a globally mobile republic, able to choose which jurisdiction they wish to operate under, the public is right to ask why we allow this to happen.
Why should taxes just be for the little people?