Ah yessss, the 16th amendment. A one-liner that grew into thousands of pages of tax code that nobody can comprehend. Marx would be proud.

Well crafted article, LibertyPen! Thank you for posting it.

I'm thinking how proud treasury was in using tax evasion to bring down Al Capone, but come to think of it the IRS makes Al look like an amateur. Maybe it would be better to have a few Capone's slip through the cracks of justice than to create a tax system that enslaves the whole nation. Hmmm, also come to think of it, if there was no income tax Al wouldn't have broken any tax laws. Justice would have to get him some other way.