The Most Hated Form in the United States

Today, I grief the 100th birthday of the overturning of  Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution that explicitly prohibited a general income tax.  In its place, Congress ratified 16th amendment, which established the right to impose a Federal income tax on Americans.

A copy of the original "1040 Form" is as follows with its tax rates between 1% and 6%:

After seeing the above "1040 Form" in its total simplicity, don't you yearn for the good old days when you did not need a CPA or a tax attorney to file your income taxes?  I know, I do!