"The Congress shall have
power to lay and collect taxes
on incomes, from whatever
source derived, without
apportionment among the
several States, and without
regard to any census or
enumeration."
16th Amendment

TRANSLATION: ‘Your earnings are not exclusively your own; we have a claim on them, and our claim precedes yours; we will allow you to keep some of it because we recognize your need, not your right; but whatever we grant you for yourself is for us to decide.'