Sorry, the income tax predates Karl Marx by a couple hundred years. Try again. (Typical FT/TP - Doesn’t know history, and doomed to repeat it.)
What the h*ll does that have to do with the FACT that Marx and Engels CLEARLY endorsed a heavy progressive income tax as one item on a list of things that would aid them and their fellow travelers in taking over developed countries?
ANYONE who doubts that they did so need only read it for themselves in the Manifesto of the Communist Party (second section toward the end).
(Typical FT/TP - Doesn’t know history, and doomed to repeat it)
It is not Fairtaxers who don't know history but those of your ilk instead!
If your knowledge of history were HALF what it should be you would know that income taxes have NEVER been well received by taxpayers and that MANY tax collectors and other public officials have lost their lives in trying to enforce them!