Okay but the income tax is an infringement on our right to liberty. Ron Paul realizes that.
It is an infringement. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t meet the constitutional test.
All the energy the tax protesters expend attacking the Sixteenth Amendment would be much better spent working to repeal it.
But, if you must play this fruitless game, you’d be forther ahead attacking the current system on Fifth Amendment self-incrimination grounds.
Alan Keyes once said that if he were elected president he would put a Miranda warning on every 1040 form, while working to repeal the Sixteenth Amendment and dismantle the IRS.
I think the involuntary servitude Thirteenth Amendment argument against a system of income tax is silly, by the way. Our original Constitution envisaged taxes.
The only way you could make that argument stick is by arguing against tax rates that became confiscatory. And that wouldn’t necessarily have anything to do with whatever particular system you were using to collect it. It would have to do with the rate.