I suppose you think this will be legally ratified. That wasn’t a problem for the people who wanted to subjugate us with the 16th amendment.
MichiganConservative,
You make an excellent point. Not only is it always extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution, but it is also true (as you indicate) that the States were willing to give away a tremendous amount of the power when they ratified the 16th Amendment.
However, that ratification happened under Taft before we had even had The Great War (World War I). - So the Industrial Military Complex had yet to be born. There were no entitlement programs. So, the Federal Government had yet to turn into the insanely huge bureaucracy it is today. The gold standard was still in effect. In short, the States were not aware of how massively they were empowering the Federal Government.
I believe it is possible to educate enough voting citizens to popularize the eventual ratification of this Amendment. And while State governments will not look forward to the increased scrutiny of their inner workings; they will LOVE the super-increase of their power to accrue revenue.