Thanks for posting Ohioan. And with all due respect to your statement, please consider the following.
Noting that many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention were wealthy, when the delegates ratified the Constitution they put their money where their mouths were by committing themselves and their rich friends to uniquely pay to run the new federal government. This is evidence by the following excerpt from rich man Thomas Jefferson’s writings.
“The rich alone use imported articles, and on these alone the whole taxes of the General Government are levied [emphasis added]. … Our revenues liberated by the discharge of the public debt, and its surplus applied to canals, roads, schools, etc., the farmer will see his government supported, his children educated, and the face of his country made a paradise by the contributions of the rich alone, without his being called on to spend a cent from his earnings.” —Thomas Jefferson to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1811.
But also note that first half 19th century state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had clarified the following about Congress’s limited power to appropriate taxes.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In other words, the Court had clarified that Congress is allowed to appropriate taxes only for what it can justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other minor constitutionally enumerated expenses.
In fact, one of the reasons that the Founding States established the federal Senate was so that senators could protect their states from federal overreach by killing bills that not only steal unique state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associated with those powers indicated by the Gibbons excerpt above.
This is also why the founders had given the power to vote for senators uniquely to state law makers, not to ordinary citizens.
Also note that a constitutional lawmaker and a Supreme Court justice had clarified that the Founding States had left the care of the people to states, not the federal government.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that some constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes, or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must provide their citizens with a republican form of government.
The reason that corrupt Congress is now taxing and spending for all kinds of things that it can clearly not justify under its Section 8-limited powers is the following.
The early 20th century Progressive Movement spooked low-information voters into pressuring state lawmakers to ratify the ill-conceived 17th Amendment. State lawmakers caved, foolishly giving up the voices of the state legislatures in Congress by doing so.
So now the corrupt, popularly elected Senate works in cahoots with the likewise corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills that steal state powers and state revenues, state revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.
What patriots need to do about unconstitutional federal taxes is to support PDJT in leading the states to repeal the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Don't dare mention that the Federal Reserve is a private banking institution either. That'll really bring you wrath.
In Jefferson's introduction to the Declaration, our defining spokesman altered slightly the traditional reference to "life, liberty & property," as primary natural rights, to Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness, reflecting his understanding that we are all not materialistic or utilitarian. Yet, certainly, the pursuit of wealth is, and has long been, a major factor in the pursuit of happiness for many Americans. The right to pursue, is not and never was a right or guarantee of success: No guarantee of success! But no ceiling on aspiration or achievement! The intended promise of America, in common sense & elemental fairness, was always a right to try.