It is why the concept of a temporary tax is asinine as congress never lets go if income sources that it has.Thank you, T.
In July 1863, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln and Congress created the office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacted a temporary income tax to pay war expenses (see Revenue Act of 1862). The position of Commissioner exists today as the head of the Internal Revenue Service.
The Revenue Act of 1862 was passed as an emergency and temporary war-time tax. It copied a relatively new British system of income taxation, instead of trade and property taxation.
Ol' "Honest" Abe, hunh?
To mouse: you have failed to comment on the point about the fourth and fifth amendments. They do not fit into your idea that you don't have a right to your untaxed income. It is clear that you actually do have such a right.