By precedent I’m guessing you mean stare decisis. Do you really think it is a good plan for a 100% roll of the dice everytime someone goes to court? It sounds inefficient and unstable to me.
I haven’t looked into the income tax cases too much, but it appears that since the amendment they have pretty much held up the constitutionality of the income tax on citizens. If not I would imagine the normal people would have much more success in not paying taxes.
When one considers the way the English has been so Bastardized, and that new meanings to words are made up routinely. We should go back to the way it was
JOHN JAY our first SC Justice held JURY trials to determine Constitutionality. The US Constitution was written in PLAIN ENGLISH for a common people and the PEOPLE were to Decide what was Constitutional at the Supreme Court Level via JURY TRIAL.
ps there are thousands of people who have beat the IRS on constitutional grounds, but it isn’t widely publicized. There was a case about 10 yrs ago a guy won when he refused to hand over the Documents requested by the IRS, the Law stated he was required to bring them to court, but there was no law requiring him to turn them over, that has since been changed