How would we provide for national defense? There are some legitimate government functions. How did they pay for legitimate stuff before income taxes?
I wholeheartedly agree that the government has too much money and too much of what they think is permission to crawl into every crevice of our lives. Seems to me that the Tenth Amendment is supposed to keep the feds at least from having the OPPORTUNITY to screw us so badly.
Did we not have a standing Army and Navy prior to 1913?
Yes, income taxes were established to pay for the Civil War, but the tax rate was something like 2% and, by law, the tax collection had an expiration date.
I'm serious, the only way to cut the spending and waste is to not give the government OUR MONEY.