Are you seriously arguing this? You don’t think when nearly half the population pays zero income tax, and many of those get a check back larger than what they had withheld, that the result is not exactly what we have now...a voting population who is voting the Democrat party into power to keep their handouts and who just want to bilk the other half of the voters?
Obviously, there are other federal taxes. There are also FICA, fees, use taxes, gas taxes, etc, etc. We are talking about the income tax which is the ongoing debate in our political system. Regardless of other taxes, the income tax system is sorely broken. I am not sure how you can possibly disagree with this, or why you are on FR if you think it is fine as currently functioning.
No, he's not arguing it seriously. He's just arguing it.