[Repeal The 17th]

Some other FReeper (can't remember who it was) pointed out the other day
that the main thing about the 16th amendment wasn't the "tax on income"
but that a federal tax, for the first time ever,
could be levied upon an individual citizen.
Up until that time, there was very little interaction
between an individual citizen and the federal government.

AMENDMENT XVI
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes,
from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States,
and without regard to any census or enumeration."

"Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes ... without regard to any census or enumeration.

[Amendment10]

... Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.

As mentioned in related threads, it remains that before 16A was ratified, the Supreme Court had clarified that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues, essentially any issue which Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.

“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.

Also mentioned elsewhere, not only is the Court's clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes still in effect imo, but the states need to amend Justice Marshall's statement to the Constitution where corrupt Congress can continue to ignore it. /sarc