LET'S ELIMINATE INCOME TAXES
There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about income taxes. It is clear is that the founding fathers didn't want there to be federal taxes. They were rebelling against a king who could raise taxes any time he wanted to, and nobody was able to do anything about it. The phrase, "No taxation without representation," was very popular at that time.
So what went wrong? Well, in the Civil War, the American government needed money, so Congress instituted a temporary income tax. When the war ended, so did the tax. But then they passed the 16th amendment, which legalized income taxes for World War I, and this time they neglected to include a deadline. After the war ended, the 16th amendment was not repealed as I think it should have been.
Now the government is so big that it's critically dependent on income taxes. If taxes were ended instantly, the government would probably collapse. So eliminating income taxes must be a long term goal. It would need to be done gradually so that the government can become smaller at a manageable pace. But I want to start moving in that direction.
I would begin introducing optional taxes to replace the obligatory income taxes. Then, everyone with an income of $10,000 or less would no longer be required to pay taxes. The following year, everyone making no more than $20,000 would be exempt from paying taxes. And every year, the exemption level would go up by $10,000, and many more people would no longer need to go through the agony of filling out tax forms. A side benefit of this plan is that every year there would be fewer people to audit for tax fraud, so if the number of auditors doesn't decrease, fewer people would get away with cheating. And the people who are caught would, on average, have a higher income than the people caught in the previous year. So that means the fines for tax fraud could be raised every year.