[StormEye]

Yes, the tyranny has happened because of the 17th Amendment.
But the 16th Amendement, the personal income tax, is what they use to tyrannize the population. The 16th Amendment, the federal income tax, must go!

[Jacquerie]

Another tremendous downside to the 17th, is that it guaranteed leftist judges, hostile to the 9th and 10th amendments, would find their way to Scotus.

They in turn, long ago found no equal protection violation with progressive taxation, which is majoritarian abuse of minorities, the very thing our constitution was designed to avoid.