BINGO!
If so, isn't that prima facia evidence that it should be abolished?
ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! It is the “prima facia” evidence that the American citizenry needs to wake up & educate themselves about their Constitution & the laws that their representatives pass that are 100% constitutional in nature so to turn the tides on the beast, starve the beast that it once again becomes the benign pussy cat it used to be.
And how was the method for funding the government prior to the 16th amendment defective?
The funding for the federal government was not different before the 16th Amendment, either through excises, imposts & duties or by apportionment, the federal government had all the means necessary to pay for all the constitutional duties given it to do. Which, BTW, A1,S9 apportionment does not give Congress the authority to directly tax individuals. Apportionment taxes were & are to be billed to the states and then it is up to the states to determine how to collect the taxes from the citizens of their respective states that the state treasury had already paid to the federal government.
So, we must be careful what we wish for, because if the 16th is repealed and replaced with a ‘one size fits all because everyone must have some skin in the game’, then the Constitutional powers of taxation will have truly been usurped. And this includes Mark Levin's supposed “liberty tax amendment” that is anything but liberating, it is 100% tyrannical & socialist in its nature.
The problem is not with the law, it lies with the American citizenry's laziness in educating themselves as to the Constitution & constitutional laws their representatives pass. It never used to be this way. Prior to WWII, less than 8% of the working population filed 1040’s or paid ‘income tax’. Not because they did not make enough so to have to file, but because they knew the law and they knew that the law did not apply to their earnings. So what changed?
I pray you educate yourself and your family ... we did not have this resource when we began educating ourselves as to the nature and application of the ‘income tax’. I found this website last summer ... it contains everything we learned in one simple and easy to use website. ... begin by reading this and then prepare for a very RUDE awakening a to the damage we have done to ourselves & our nation by remaining ignorant of the truth of the benign nature of the 16th Amendment. ... http://losthorizons.com/Documents/The16th.htm
I will take a look at your link, but if all you say is true, what did the 16th amendment change, and why do you think people were lead to believe otherwise?