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The taxpayer is not really the employer. The taxpayer is the victim of a government taking, and some member of the government is the actual employer.

The deal is unfair to the taxpayer in the same way that being robbed by the mafia is unfair. To complain about a mafia boss spending too much on his chauffeur's salary is a weak secondary argument that will probably fail anyway by contradicting some fundamental economic ideas. Do you really imagine that if the chauffeur were fired that the mafia boss wouldn't find something else to spend stolen money on?

To paraphrase from a long but interesting Ernest Hancock speech:

"Why do governments take from you?"
"Because they can."
"How much and how long will they take?"
"Until you make them stop."