How many freepers who venerate every word in the Constitution as some kind of sacred scripture that must be interpreted in an absolute originalist manner venerate the 16th Amendment in the same way?
Anyone?
If you're trying to say the IRS doesn't follow the law, you're wrong. The problem is that too few people understand how to read the law. And even that's no accident - learning to read law is hard, pretending that the government just makes stuff up is far easier. Now you're taking it to the next level - bragging about your ignorance and laziness. So to answer your question, yes, I read the law. Slowly, carefully, and sounding out the words with a legal dictionary in my hand, if necessary. Because that's what it takes to understand what's actually going on.
There was a bad run of Amendments, imho. The 16th is not the only Amendment which was not a good idea. The 17th isn’t high on my list of ‘keepers’, either, and the 18th was repealed. I’m still debating about how I feel about the 19th (YMMV).