That’s the way it used to be prior to the 16th amendment.
That amendment was the worst thing ever done to this country. It resulted in this bloated, corrupt monstrosity we call the government and the bureaucratic state (deep state).
It make the government the owner of whatever amount of money you make and they just decide how much of it they let you keep.
Repealing it is an admirable goal, but to achieve it the government would have to shrink to a 10th or less the size of what it is today. Fat chance of that happening.
I go back and forth as which is worse: the 16th or the 17th amendments? 16th and 17th are the twin pillars of codified evil.