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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belthos" data-source="post: 2128670" data-attributes="member: 24944">Income tax was unconstitutional until the 16th amendment passed.The government collected all it's income from tariffs, import and export fees collected by US customs.In 2006 20% of the federal governments income came from income tax, the rest mostly came from import and export tariffs and other tariffs.In theory if you balanced the budget and then went further and lowered it another 20% there would be no need for income taxes or the irs.....</blockquote>