Given the couple hundred million people who are compelled to pay taxes every year, if they truly faced a "comply or die" ultimatum you would expect over the decades to see thousands (at a minimum) of killings.

Eric Garner and quite a few others are terrible examples of police brutality that minorities face in the enforcement of what should normally be non-lethal actions under any circumstances, even total non-compliance. Lethality here is a method of racial and/or class suppression, not so much enforcement of specific laws (e.g. jaywalking, loitering, cigarette tax compliance).