Government as benefactor

TOI headline for budget is , FM revises tax slabs to give more money to consumers. Now I am not a libertarian, if anything I find them nearly insufferable. Even so I find this headline disturbing  because it implies government by default owns whatever the citizen has earned, and when it reduces the taxes it is actually giving to citizers. This violates the principle of the citizen’s ownership of his earnings which is bedrock of  not just modern democracy but also civilization. Ultimately such an assumption leads to gradual enslavement of citizenry.