Rodney King wrote: "The income tax is evil..."
Give unto Caesar, that which is Caesar's. I agree with you, but I'll still file.
I'm always amazed when I read the 16th Amendment. What sane person would vote for such a thing? They must have been very naive back then to think they could write such an open-ended abomination without the government taking advantage of it. The 16th is literally a blank check:
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration."
The 16th is the fountain from which springs all sorts of government mischief. Education Dept. unconstitutional? No problem! Comply with No Child Left Behind, or you won't get this pile of money! Set the drinking age to 21, or you won't get this pile of money. Seatbelts? Wear them or you won't get this pile of money. You get the point.
They did even worse with the Fedl Reserve Act - even naming it so that it didn't appear to be a Central Bank like the first two failures of elite theft of the taxpayer, which was a private corporation Govt privileged monopoly.
Read Jackson's veto please!
Jackson's 2nd Bank US VETO (very important - what he correctly and constitutionally opposed is just what we ended up with in 1913 foisted upon us by the same int'l banking cabal)
http://alpha.furman.edu/~benson/docs/ajveto.htm
It was sold as a soak the rich scheme against the "robber barons".