"The Federal Income Tax Con: They conned us into allowing them to tax our income by promising that the maximum tax rate would never be more than 3%, and that only the very rich would ever have to pay it."
The concept of the government having a claim on one's income was accepted under the guise of sticking it to the other fella (the rich). That generation bought into the class warfare con and now there is probably no way to get out of the mess.