I don’t have a problem with directly electing Senators.
Look at how arrogant they are now, having to answer to public every six years.
As for the Income Tax, America at the time was a very different place than it is now with a lot of wealth accumlating in the hands of robber barons. Roosevelt was hardly a Bolshevik.
You do the research.
Look at how arrogant they are now, having to answer to public every six years.
What a wonderful non sequitur. You've missed by 100% the problem caused by having senators elected instead of appointed by the states.