The 16th amendment is still acknowledged as functional.
You can try all you want ( as have others) to dance around all of it. Those folks are all in jail and have heavy fines.
Go ahead don’t pay your taxes and tell the IRS how right you are. We will write to you behind bars
21 years ago everyone around me said the same thing. Understand?
And besides, you like everyone else simply refuse to dig, which is required. I’m not saying the 16th doesn’t conform with other aspects of the constitution. Maybe you didn’t notice my “de facto” clue. The income tax is legal, just misnamed. Here we have the classic problem. You pay, therefore you hate on non-taxpayers. I tell the truth, income is corporate profit, and no less a bureaucratic entity than the Supreme Court has declared that to be the case. Everyone I know cheats on their taxes except me... Hate on me if you wish, you cheat too I would wager.
Still not behind bars, still never been arrested, still a freeman. Understand?