The Tax Man Cometh

April 15th is fast approaching when good ole Uncle Sam takes his unfair share of our hard earned money. After all illegal immigrants, foreign countries and most of all our wonderful representatives & senators need the money for their pork barrel projects. Per Wickipedia:

On June 16, 1909, President Taft proposed a constitutional amendment in an address to Congress to allow federal income taxes on individuals and an excise tax "upon the privilege of doing business as an artificial entity and of freedom from a general partnership liability enjoyed by those who own the stock."[16][17]
On July 12, 1909, the resolution proposing the Sixteenth Amendment was passed by the Sixty-first Congress and submitted to the state legislatures. Support for the income tax was strongest in the western states and opposition was strongest in the northeastern states.[18] The governor of New York, Charles Evans Hughes, who a few years later became a Supreme Court justice, opposed the income tax amendment because he believed "from whatever source derived" implied that passage would confer the federal government with the power to tax state and municipal bonds and thus excessively centralize government power.[19]
The presidential election of 1912 was contested between three advocates of an income tax.[20] On February 25, 1913, the Secretary of State Philander Knox proclaimed that the amendment had been ratified by the necessary three-fourths of the states, and thus had become part of the Constitution. An income tax, the Revenue Act of 1913, was shortly passed by the Congress.

The naive people of 1913 let the demon of unregulated taxing almost without representation out of the bottle. Today no one really understands the tax laws, but woe unto a hard working citizen who violates one of these laws that statistics show the IRS doesn't understand either. The exception is for our so called representatives who get a slap on the wrist if they do not pay their taxes when due. I understand some taxes are needed to maintain our government and our way of life, but it shouldn't take almost 5 months of wages per year to pay all the taxes imposed on us.