> (3) oppose any effort to tax income even if the threshold is way way way higher than anything they or anyone they know will ever come near on the grounds that

> (3) oppose any effort to tax income even if the threshold is way way way higher than anything they or anyone they know will ever come near on the grounds that at some future time the threshold could be removed. This is exactly what happened with the national income tax, which initially only applied to <1% of the population. Of course the snare was set, and after WWI broke out the snare then sprung. It took less than a decade to go from <1% to >33% of households.