Repeal the 16th Amendment!

We can talk about healthcare, Palin, Iran, cap and trade, global warming cons, NY-23, national debt, tea parties, socialists in the White House, corruption, unemployment and a dozen other topics, but as long as government has the power to tax our income there is nothing more important than a national movement to repeal the 16th Amendment, but this needed effort doesn't look promising, even when viewed from the past:

Frank Chodorov writes, regarding the original Constitution and the subsequent 16th Amendment:

Certainly, no tax on incomes got into the Constitution. That was unthinkable. A people that had but recently kicked over the traces because of taxes far less onerous would hardly have countenanced an income tax. They knew their freedom.

The case for repeal rests on this tradition. If there are still enough Americans who are of the opinion that that government governs best which governs least, if there is among us a group willing to risk their fortunes, their lives, and their sacred honor for freedom, then repeal has a chance. If, on the other hand, the habits of mind acquired under income taxation have completely obliterated the American tradition, then any effort to restore citizen sovereignty is futile.

It is never too late to put up a fight for freedom.
Right now, even in America, the prospect for starting such a fight is unpromising. Not that the goal is unattainable, but that the interest in freedom is at so low an ebb. The great enthusiasm of the times is "security"; it is a mirage sprouting out of deep-rooted human yearning for something-for-nothing. Government, which lives and thrives on power, fosters belief in the "golden calf," so that it can surreptitiously rob the self-mesmerized worshipers of their wealth and their dignity. It requires no great acumen to realize that what trickles out of the government's cornucopia must be replaced by labor. But reflection is foreclosed by the madness that has come over us. The national passion is for handouts, no matter what the cost. Freedom, which puts a premium on self-reliance, is in short demand. Why put up a fight for it?

The rank and file, those whose principal preoccupation is with the problem of existence, are in no mood to argue with the beneficient State; they are for letting well enough alone. These Americans who have pretensions of over-average capacities are also quite willing to put their self-esteem on the barrellhead. The entrepreneur whose venture would not exist but for government loans or government contracts readily makes peace with government regulation. So long as government bonds pay interest, the banker will not quarrel with government intervention. The farmer does not object to the meddlesome federal agent who brings him a gratuity, and the professor who lives by subsidies will write books in praise of the subsidizing State.
  Who wants freedom?

First, there must be recognition that freedom is valuable and that statism is fed by the income tax -- then, there must be the willingness to sacrifice for liberty. It's not wild-eyed idealism that has to burn in the hearts of the American people, although that wouldn't be so bad -- but something deeper than economics must be at play. Perhaps no one cares about property, individual rights and liberty in modern America, but I find this difficult to believe. I believe Americans have been sold a bill of goods and the fraud must now be revealed, once again. Perhaps every so often the American people will have to re-evaluate where they are and what they want, and this is one of those times. There should be no queasiness about calling theft what it is -- theft.

Where are the people who will fight statism? Politics is a game of illusion, but the time has come for objectivity, honesty and reality. Grownups can no long afford to play the game of illusion. I will be writing daily through December about fighting statism. It's time to come out of denial and face responsibility.