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There was no income tax for over a third of United States history.

Income tax is immoral for it penalizes lower wage earners proportionally far greater than those generating higher amounts. For an individual spending 70% on living costs and 15% in direct income tax (not counting sales tax, telecommunications fees, etc) there is 15% left over out of $50,000 per year - $7,500 free. For someone in the top tax bracket of perhaps, those numbers may be 25% living costs and 40% taxes; out of $450,000 that leaves $157,500 free - far greater flexibility.

Again, income taxes harm lower income levels far more than higher. You can raise tax rates but then the higher earners simply leave due to their greater flexibility - yet again leaving lower income earners worse off.

It also funds destructive policies that effectively cannot be shut down without reporting to extreme measures. Government never scales back willingly.

Seek the truth of how reality works by observing rather than trying to force it to fit a perspective; you'll find things are very different than you expected.