text: Seniors do pay taxes and that is on a fixed income that decreases yearly due to rising costs. They pay property tax, vehicle tax, gas tax, food tax, and all the other taxes you and I pay. The excise tax hits seniors more than it hits others because they live on fixed income. Further, their health care benefits decrease but their costs increase in the form of Medicare cost cutting. And we all know that Congress and Trump are trying to reduce their services in order to give the rich a tax break.