At least I should be able to be shown by some bright government person the exact location of the wording within the tax regulations that states that the sources from which I have been deriving income, all these years, are included within not only the language of the so-called income tax amendment, but consistently found in the tax regulations themselves. Just between you and me, its amazing how many times we have been disappointed when we ask a government agent to give a straightforward answer and point out a specific reference in the written law. Its just sad to see them, time after time, stumbling over the very laws they are charged to administer - often unable to recognize even the Internal Revenue Code. Their ignorance of the law should strike fear in the hearts of every American who knows what it forebodes. We must not be governed by ignorant thugs or goons.
Lets postulate some puzzle pieces.
Either those provisions are still in full force and effect, or the Constitution has been rendered superfluous by the Sixteenth Amendment. For, if the government has an unlimited authority to tax, recent history teaches us that it will continue to abuse all other notions of limited government. Otherwise we might likewise believe that continuously increased transfusions of fresh blood will cure a vampire. Without security for property there is no liberty. Lets assume the Sixteenth Amendment was intentionally worded to deceive or mislead.