They <i>are</i> paying their taxes, it&#x27;s just that &quot;their taxes&quot; aren&#x27;t primarily based on income. The article specifically says this.<p>Nothing stops you from doing it. Just reduce your income and your income taxes will drop. To make up the difference, you don&#x27;t need money; you need the services that money was previously paying for.<p>Instead of needing income to buy a car, start a business that owns the car and takes a tax deduction for it, but allows you to use the car at no charge (reminds me of the contractor I knew who had his carpentry business buy a Corvette as his &quot;work vehicle&quot;). Ditto for your house, etc: a friend of mine bought a 3-family house, rented out all the rooms on the second &amp; third floors and lived on the first floor herself while tenants paid the mortgage and she got to take any expenses as deductions.<p>Now, you might find out that in the end it&#x27;s not worth it to you to do that, but there&#x27;s nothing illegal about it, it&#x27;s just business.