unlike this guy, who merely wants to repeal the 16th amendment. in case you're rusty on your amendments, the glorious 16th is the amendment that created the federal income tax. it was ratified in 1913, and it's not hyperbole to say it's of the state. bounced around two to three percent. after the 16th amendment passed, spending clocked in 10% to 40%, depending how many wars we were in. repealing the 16th amendment has been one of the far right ideas like denouncing president abraham lincoln as an authoritarian anti-christ and now it's gone mainstream because republican front runner rick perry wrote about it in his book, "fed up." funny thing, rachel maddow carrying it in her back pack today. too soon for mainstream america saying the book is "a look back, not a path forward and was written as a review and critique of 50 years of federal excesses not in any way as a 2012 campaign blueprint or