Are they serious? It reads like a satire.
The last I heard, a tax was a proportion of your income taken (forcefully) by the state. Not something the state refused to give you.
If they don't like it, perhaps they should get their own bloody house. I don't think you could get a five-bedroom house for £120-odd a week in the private sector. It costs my family £2,000 a month for a four-bedroomed house in Kent.