Feudal serfs gave the fruits of their labor and all of their freedom to a small group who lived very well.
Some want 21st Century America to be like that.
Tax money is providing public employees, such as these in Connecticut as noted in this link from PJMedia.Com, with $5 million tax-funded salaries. Pennsylvania might be better with its $300,000 top salaries, as per this 2009 article, but only in the sense that one would prefer to have one's tires stolen rather than the entire car.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
"If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress, and don’t trust federal judges, to make sure that we’re abiding by the Constitution with due process and rule of law, then we’re going to have some problems here." - Barack Obama, June 7, 2013