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I think we are missing the point here. It doesn't matter as much how our politicians are elected as much as it does what they do once they are. (Personally I think the closer you can get to the people the better the outcome ) What we need to do is to reclaim as much power as possible from the government dictators and return it to the people. If we are going to repeal any amendment to the constitution it should be the 16th. If we remove the vast flood of money going into the federal government and the ability they have to snoop into how much money each individual American makes, How they make it and where they choose to spend or invest it we would take their means of controlling these aspects of our lives. We would also kill the most evil organization ever to defile the face of the earth — the IRS.

While I’m all for repealing the 16th Amendment as well truthfully it never did anywhere near as much damage as the 17th.

The power to directly Tax the states ill-respective of their populations is in practice nothing compared to the interest in Federal control thou unlimited tax and spending powers, (which STILL require congress to ignore its Constitutionally limited scope of powers.)

Technically speaking under the original meaning of the General welfare clause, congress does not have the right to tax or ensue dept unless its in the interest of the general(not class,state, or group spesfic) welfare or common defense of the united states in addition to only using the forgoing powers.

To that end Congress and the Congress appointed courts(anyone else see the conflict of interest?) which support them(big surprise) are overstepping their authority in terms of most of what the Federal Government now does.

This is why we need as many states as possible passing Federal Escrow Tax bills like this one now being looked at in Georgia:
http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2009_10/versions/hb877_LC_18_8555T_pf_2.htm

or this one being looked at by the Oklahoma state Legislator:

http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/2009-10bills/HB/HB2810_int.rtf

Or this one in Washington State:

http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2009-10/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2712.pdf

We may not have the Senate as a tool to help prevent theses usurpation from coming into congressional acts in the first place but we still have the Constitution and our backup options for its enforcement.