I'd say the founding principles of the US secured the conditions for a lot of people, with obvious injustices and exceptions. Property and income tax are scourges, way over the line of minimum necessary. You can quibble on whether requiring driver’s licenses supports or detracts from those conditions, but small potatoes compared to the main taxes.

But the principle IMO is important because government exists, and we should have a standard (even an aspirational one) to which to hold it.