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All members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are paid in full by the U.S. Treasury, which ultimately gets its money from the tax payers.
US Senators and Representatives have received a salary since 1789, when they were paid the princely sum of $6 per day. "Paid for by taxes" is a bit harder to answer, but considering there aren't a lot of other options for it to be paid for WITH, essentially it's the same answer.
They are paid by the United States government, and their salary is set by the law.
In 2002 the governor's salary was $95,389. Source: http://www.city-data.com/states/South-Dakota-State-government.html
The answer is Taille or Land Tax