Before any new taxes are created, cut the budget further across the board except for what is necessary to protect people from other people. That is the fundamental purpose of government. Families & businesses cut their budgets to fit their income. The state should be no different.
There can be no compromise with an income tax. Once you start it up again, it just gets worse. An income tax means the fruits of your labor do not belong to you. The government decides what you keep & collects it through coercion, intimidation & threats. That is why Alan Keys called it “the slave tax”. It is a tax for a collectivist society not a society founded upon the principals of individual liberty & freedom. Marx & Engels supported the income tax as the 2nd tenant of their “Communist Manifesto”. Our Founding Fathers, champions of freedom & individual liberty, did not believe in a direct tax on individuals. They supported tariffs, which is a consumption tax. A sales tax is a consumption tax.