democracy is pointless, there can't be a democracy if no one pays taxes.
democracy is around how to spend money & taxes.
If you don't pay taxes you lose any minimum wage or unemployment support people had for whatever reason, you lose police, judges and most importantly any sort of defence/military. You also lose your central monetary system, what you going to replace those paper notes with, who's going to back it up..
And if you don't have any military support, someone will just come along from outside and invade or from within and build up an inner circle to take over and run the country - reinventing taxes to fund themselves...? Or they'll just enslave everyone in the land or at least those who don't agree.