For a quick reality check, think of the society that was instituted by the Founding Fathers. Compare with that of the persons “subject to the jurisdiction” in this document:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/browse2002.html#08supp

The two couldn’t be more different! One is a Citizen, the other is a slave. Your liability to the income tax is merely one item that proves it.

More specifically Chief Justice Marshall had established the following case precedent, now wrongly ignored by both federal and state legislators, that Congress cannot lay taxes in the name of state power issues.

"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." –Chief Justice Marshall, GIBBONS V. OGDEN, 1824. http://supreme.justia.com/us/22/1/case.html

So not only is Obamacare, for example, constitutionally unauthorized as evidenced by the Constitution's silence on public healthcare, but based on Justice Marshall's official words, corrupt Congress never had the power to lay taxes to fund Obamacare.

But an arguably bigger problem than corrupt Congress is that the constitutionally powerful state legislatures have not been doing their jobs to protect citizens from illegal taxes imposed by the constitutionally weak federal government.

The bottom line is that citizens have big messes to clean up in both the federal and state legislatures in this year's midterm elections.

From this, we can correctly conclude that the leadership of the Republican Party is not interested in shrinking government. Of course, there are a few individual Republicans who would campaign on ending the income tax (Ron Paul being the most notable), but the party marginalizes such thinking.