content: This is why I favor repealing the 16th amendment and going back to funding the federal government primarily through tariffs -- as the founding fathers intended and as was done successfully for nearly 2 centuries.  Suddenly in 1913 the rich decided we needed a Fed that was unaccountable to the US citizen and the federal government should be allowed to tax people directly.  And look at how well that has turned out.  Stock market crashes, endless debt, foreign governments owning our representatives, states are irrelevant, a Supreme Court that writes its own constitution.  Really great move.