The income tax has about reached the point where its increase will foment a internal war. More and more people are opting to not pay it. They use various foundations for their rebellion, their approaches 99% dead wrong.
But dead wrong or not, they are exercising a very ancient right of human beings in a social context: to vote with their feet or their fist, the current term for that being " civil disobedience".
The Treasury Dept. doesn't have the personnel to handle it. One little increase in the income taxes on any front will increase exponentially the foot voters and the system will collapse for all intents and purposes, although will still be in place.
The problem will force a confrontation that is long overdue. That confrontation has already been biting. No agency of the Treasury Dept. has been able to answer the question why an American citizen comes under the authority of Title 26 having to do with income taxes.
The indication that that system is cracking is demonstrated by the fact that they will not answer the question, when the answer, if legitimate, would be a most simple to end the controversy.
I am for the forms that the general government, using its national or federal power, has traditionally used to finance itself. Those forms are a debate for another time.
The fact is, that the income and social security taxes are for the purpose of financing our developing socialist systems. I hate socialism in any form, so I may not be an objective person to ask.