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The Founding Fathers abhorred income taxes, with good reason! Look at the mess we have made of it!

They fully understood that taxing things (duties, excises and tariffs) was a much better way to raise funds for the legitimate purposes of government. And they likewise understood that America was about personal FReedom, including economic FReedom and equality of treatment under the law.

Unfortunately, beginning in 1848 when the Communist Manifesto was published in London, the American people were seduced into believing that "From each according to their ability to each according to their needs."

It took a while, but eventually, the Liberal/Socialist/Marxist Bastards prevailed, and in 1913 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution passed. Very quickly, the American people were saddled with a progressive income tax, per the second plank of the Communist Manifesto.

The Founding Fathers fully understood that an income tax was a slave tax. They understood what would happen (there being plenty of examples in world history prior to 1776/1787) if an unapportioned income tax were sanctioned by the Constitution -- the primacy of the people over their government was a prime consideration of the Founders -- so they set up a system designed to prevent the primacy of government over the people.

The 16th Amendment fundamentally changed that relationship between the people and the government. Prior to 1913, the government was the slave and the people were its master; after the 16th Amendment passed, the relationship inverted; the people became slaves and the government became the maseter.

Those of us who support the NRST aim to put the people back in charge.