Further the US Constitution allows for a special was powers act to fund, well war. This is how the original corporate excise tax of 1913 was created and it lawfully stopped two years later, if not extended and after the war if extensions were made. Instead, after the war, the forces of evil made it an ongoing tax, legislatively. Then extended it from corporations to individuals by further sleight of hand.
This current usurpation of the USConstitution has been ongoing for quite some time. Some of us have been trying to say that to whoever would listen; myself for almost 40 years!
It matters not what laws we pass, what the constitution says, if evil contorts the meanings of what has already been written.
I agree with your general sentiment about corrupt forces not taking out Constitution seriously and the damage these forces have wrought.
However, I do not agree that Article I section 8 limited the Fed to only taxing State governments based upon apportionment. I do believe they already have the power to tax State governments. But President George Washington and the 1st Congress obviously thought the Whiskey Tax Act (a direct tax on the production of whiskey) was perfectly Constitutional. None of Washington’s fellow Founding Fathers spoke up in disagreement. To the contrary at least one - Hamilton - was heartily in favor. Washington led 13,000 troops to Pennsylvania to enforce this tax law.
This get to the gist of the entire conversation as far as I'm concerned. So, if corruption within the governing structure(s)is the problem, then would it be incorrect to assume that no matter how an amendment/law was worded the effect of the law would be useless? The equivalent to - the laws are only as useful as those enforcing them?