It is not the function of government to offset the unfairness in life. The function of government is to provide those things that people either cant provide for themselves or are more efficiently provided by the government. Police, fire, national defense and the like. And when you speak of unfairness, you really should be considering unfairness of opportunity not unfairness of result. Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Warren Buffet all have a little more money than me. Is that unfair? Nope. They had the ideas to start companies or wisely invest and I didnt. When you say that govt exists to offset unfairness, all you are saying is that the govt should confiscate property from one group and give it to another. That is immoral in my book.

Nothing the government gives you is free.