Many receive the Earned Income Tax Credit, allowing them to collect money they have not earned. When there is talk of tax cuts, pollsters interview many of these non-taxpayers and discover they're against tax cuts. Well, the cuts wouldn't reduce their tax bite, because they pay don't pay any, but such cuts might reduce their income. It makes the less successful feel better. Microsoft's Bill Gates is just the latest example.
Gates can afford it.
It would be Gates' fault because he would be trying to increase his profits through layoffs and that is evil. What this country needs is a mandatory course in economics for all its citizens, beginning in elementary school. If young people are not taught about economics, they are setting themselves up for sleights of hand by politicians. And that will be more taxing than bad luck.