They thought they were really approving a form of excise tax. Few nations actually like taxes. But to this day, the United States is unique among peoples in the passion of tax aversion. In other countries, rebels hole up in mountain hideouts in the name of freedom. In America, they hole up in the name of abolishing the income tax.
Some nations demonize fat-cat billionaire businessmen.
The identification of taxes with fundamental rights conforms with the rest of the Constitution. Of course, it is now considered crude among enlightened people to hide out in the mountains, or to bash taxes or tax collectors. Most who resent paying taxes say they wouldn't resent it if they were confident their money was being well spent. Recognizing this, politicians have disguised general taxes as dedicated taxes, to be used only for benign purposes, such as funding Social Security, and then proceeded to raise them and raise them and raise them. We learned fast about the Sixteenth Amendment.