The real issue here is that most people know what the framers meant, but some pretend otherwise, because they are socialists/communists. It is the same thing as with the 2nd Amendment. People want to pretend that, because the word 'militia' is included in the amendment that the organized militia is the only body that firearms were meant to be available to, but that is not the case. It doesn't really matter. The income tax is what it is, it is wrong in my opinion, and nothing is going to change, in this country. The income tax exists to feed the Federal Reserve, and since they hold a monopoly on power in this country, short of armed revolution, that power is never going to be overturned.