"What I find interesting about this whole debate is that repeal of the 16th Amendment wouldn't mean an end to the income tax - the courts have already ruled that it didn't expand Congress' taxing power, it just made it clear, as the courts had previously ruled, that an income tax is not a direct tax, but an indirect excise tax on the economic activity of remuneration of labor."
That is why Congressman Linder, the FairTax bill's primary sponsor, has always spoken of the need for an "aggressive repeal", which means that we don't just turn back the clock to 1813, but that we explicitly state that any and all income taxes are illegal.
"....we don't just turn back the clock to 1813,..."
Oops - should have been 1913.