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This is a bit of a mess. I don't know why people interject ideology into so many things, all it ever does is take focus from where it should be.
The market can do some things right, and the government can do some things right. The market is where you see wealth reward success (basically). The government is where you see taxes distributed via services to those that need it (again, basically). Morality takes a back seat to pragmatism in both cases. We need certain things to work before we can start figuring out how morality fits in. Are either the market or the government moral entities? No. Morality (or ethics) in either are done either out of necessity as a part of a reasonable contract or are the result of individual altruism. Equality being a part of taxes happens long after we've built highways, paid police and firefighters, and such. Even Social Security came into existence out of necessity, not morality.
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