The primary barrier to social safety nets is the cost, and the ideological idea that government should not take more from its productive citizens to cover that

The primary barrier to social safety nets is the cost, and the ideological idea that government should not take more from its productive citizens to cover that cost. If the largest organizations are effectively optimizing humans out of the costs, then wouldn't their profits correspondingly increase? And as the demand rises for the safety net, along with corporate profits, it seems so would the argument to take a portion of those profits to cover the nets. Maybe to the point of breaking the ideological barrier. So wouldn't the businesses most harmed be those who continue to employ humans, as they'll have to pay the increased profit taxes as well as their employees?