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> I wonder what would happen if we passed an un-repealable law (if such a thing existed) that prohibited tax holidays for the next thirty years?

It's really not possible. We can even repeal constitutional amendments.

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Hence my parenthetical. But since you mentioned amendments, you should look into the Corwin Amendment [1], which was written to preclude its own repeal. The amendment was an all-in attempt to appease the slave states and prevent the Civil War, but was too little and too late. The purpose may be distasteful to the modern reader, and may not have held up in court ('Can Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he cannot eat it?'), but it's there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment

I'm no lawyer, but I don't see how the text of the amendment would preclude its own repeal. Repealing the amendment in and of itself wouldn't have any effect at all on slavery.

The only argument I can see would be that repealing the amendment would implicitly grant power to abolish slavery, but that seems like thin ice to me.

You could change the amendment process at the same time the amendment was amended that you don't want repealed.

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