Stanton vs Baltic Mining Co. 240 US 103, at 112 (1916) "By the previous ruling, it was settled that the Sixteenth Amendment conferred no new power of taxation, but simply prohibited the previous complete and plenary power of income taxation, possessed by Congress, from the beginning, from being taken out of the category of indirect taxation, to which it inherently belonged..."

RTI--tax such as what the government receives from a corporation is an indirect tax. Meaning the tax is not taken directly out of the pocket of the average citizen as those taxes are included in the manufacture and sale of goods and services.

A direct tax is what the IRS has been taking out of your paycheck all these years, which they are not suposed to be doing, but they do anyway becuse you volunteer to contribute a portion of your labor through mistake of law. The mistake is you are representing your self as if you were an artificial entity i.e. trust, partnership, corporation or a federaly employed individual. 

Yes the system is broken and is not working the way it is suposed to. If we were not paying the direct tax out of pocket we would be instead spending that money into the economy as we should, which in turn would increase productivity and national employment. The result is that this would put more money into the federal coffers through indirect taxation which would be a very good thing for all of us.

Can you do anything about it? No. Because even though there is a process through which to correct your mistaken identity, the world system of comerce has blocked anyone who lives completely outside the broken system.  The only people in this country that I know of who are living this way are the Amish and qualified native american tribes.