I do not care if the Democrats or Republicans supported an income tax. Karl Marx also supported an income tax in his Communist Manifesto. I do not support it & neither did the Founding Fathers of our country. The Founders were against a direct tax on individuals because it infringed upon the individual liberties of the people. They favored an indirect tax like a consumption tax. I favor a flat sales tax where everyone pays the bills of government, not just targeted groups of citizens. You can exempt the basics to support life from the sales tax to protect the poor. The exemption could be for unprocessed food, housing, medicine, etc. Only a little more than 50% of the people pay a federal income tax. Under a state income tax this would mean those who do pay an income tax would also be forced to pay the bills of those who pay no tax. That makes the income tax a form of legalized theft. It is immoral because force or the threat of it is involved to collect it.