Don't panic yet. There's all sorts of fun bills that get introduced, chances are slim for any one to make it into law
There's also this https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/899?...
There's also this https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/899?...
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/25/a...
"To promote freedom, fairness, and economic opportunity by repealing the income tax and other taxes, abolishing the Internal Revenue Service"
Note: 36 co-sponsors, but this has no chance of making it into law either.
So if the 16th isn't repealed, and the IRS no longer exists... does the US just stop functioning in 2024?
Reduce government to the size that it can be dragged into the bathroom and drowned in the bathtub, as Grover Norquist eloquently put it, letting state governments and private interests fill the power vacuum.
That may not be the most humane, egalitarian or efficient way to run a country at the scale of the US, but to many people that is the way it's supposed to work.