> Just repeal the 16th amendment - the income tax is too intrusive Fun fact: the 16th Amendment does not give Congress the power to levy taxes on income. Congr

> Just repeal the 16th amendment - the income tax is too intrusive Fun fact: the 16th Amendment does not give Congress the power to levy taxes on income. Congress already had that power. What the 16th Amendment does is directly overturn SCOTUS's Pollock decision, which ruled that a tax on income derived from rent was effectively a tax on property and therefore a direct tax, which the Constitution requires to be apportioned to the states based on population. Even if you repealed the 16th Amendment, it's doubtful that modern SCOTUS would uphold the precedent of Pollock anyways (already shortly after the passage of the 16th Amendment, SCOTUS effectively overruled Pollock on the grounds that income taxes were indirect taxes anyways). This makes the 16th Amendment arguably the single most useless amendment to the US constitution.