[phil_will1]

This is certainly an eye opening article. It seems that repealing the 16th isn't the safeguard against having both taxes that we had thought it would be. I guess we have a little further to go than we thought. At any rate, once we get the FairTax passed, it should be a lot easier to enact whatever safeguards we need to prevent this from happening.

[ancient_geezer]

You might find it interesting as to how the 16th amendment actually got proposed & ratified since the article above did not really go into that piece in history.

Seems the amendment was a runaway political ploy intended to kill enactment of a proposed income tax. A ploy that backfired badly:

read: The Bailey Bill