It is all social control. What is it when they put a tax on cigarettes, or alcohol, or hotels, or yachts? Are they not deeming certain behavior bad, extravagant, inappropriate? Do they not seek to control?
Almost no one can survive without a wage. If you cannot understand the difference between a tax on wages vs a tax on sales of goods, I cannot help you...
The Constitution permits taxation. The corporate income tax should be set at a level which funds the military. This would be self-regulating in that the business roundtable would be taxing themselves for overseas adventurism if they wanted government to do their dirty work (see: War is a Racket by Butler).
Tariffs, imports, excises and the wind fall taxes should fund everything else Constitutional at the federal level.
There is no need for a tax on wages
As to the story at hand, it is not the job of government to redistribute to individuals.