Daniel,
This is the United States of American. The land of opportunity (opportunity=make alot of money). It is not about providing for the Common Welfare. You are misinterpreting some of the terminology.

Like Welfare state public policy. And an at-will unemployment? We go to work to pay our bills. We pay taxes because we don't want to pay the Queen. We try to get ahead and we don't want to pay for someone NOT to go to work.