bacchys wrote:
Direct taxes have been legal from the start provided they are apportioned among the states. The penaltax isn't proportioned according to population.

And, income tax is a direct tax.
  

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

-- Dwight Eisenhower