If you interpret the government as providing no value to society whatsoever, then I could see your point. However, if you believe the government does provide v

If you interpret the government as providing no value to society whatsoever, then I could see your point. However, if you believe the government does provide value, any baseline would equalize your income with everyone else in the population, thus not really decreasing the buying power of the money you earn. The only part where this would not be the case is if the rulers kept most of the money to themselves (a monarchy) or to a select group (unfortunately happening with Goldman Sachs recently.).Then value of your money would truly be unfairly decreased.