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This is not an issue of revenue or even of money. It is an issue of freedom and of privacy. The direct taxation of income gives government bureaucrats access to complete knowledge of nearly all aspects of your life because they need to collect data on where you make money, where you spend money, to which that money is given in charity, where that money is invested or placed in trust. How much income is generated from those trusts, and a myriad of other things they can use to control your behavior.

If this excuse for societal control was removed then freedom would increase exponentially. If (as was intended by the founders) revenue were collected in a way that was COMPLETELY anonymous. The social engineers in the government would not be able to control anybody

We need to stop framing the argument in financial terms and start making this a freedom issue because that is where the battle needs to be fought.

BTW the Bureau of internal revenue was not disbanded in 1872 when the first income tax was abolished because congress deemed them necessary to ensure that the current “revenue” was sufficiently collected.
The BIR then became the IRS in 1913 when the current income tax was instituted