As long as we leave the income tax in place we leave ourselves open to the same thing we have now. We don't need an income tax of any kind. Sales taxes work better than income taxes and we don't make criminals of our citizens with it the way we do with an income tax.
I have been praying for the people of this country to come to their senses in regards to an income tax since I was a young man( a ways back) and now we are finally getting somewhere but too many people can't seem to give up the apron strings of an income tax.
As far as the people who say that the real amount of the tax is 30 percent, so what? We pay that and more now with the income tax. We will pay what we pay now except for one big difference: You don't have to buy goods if you don't want.
From Brushaber v. Union Pacific Decided January 24, 1916.
We are of opinion, however, [240 U.S. 1, 11] that the confusion is not inherent, but rather arises from the conclusion [assumption] that the 16th Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation; that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct, should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by generalizing the many contentions advanced in argument to support it [the erroneous assumption],