You quoted "equality before the law". I don't see how people can be equal if some are taxed and the money is given to others. I know you must be thinking that

You quoted "equality before the law". I don't see how people can be equal if some are taxed and the money is given to others. I know you must be thinking that "equality before the law" is just to have a clear law like "everybody will be taxed if they meet so and so requirements" and apply that to everybody, but consider that a law could be written in exactly that same way, but instead saying "every people will be taxed if they are black". The distinctions the law make are arbitrary.