Yes, the government needs to tax to accomplish their ends. No one is arguing if they should or if it’s ethical or legal.
You clearly keep deviating the conversation because you are wrong about the numbers. Next time actually read what you use as evidence instead of skimming through wikipedia.
the point is that the income tax is illegal and therefore humiliating.
you keep on saying that "wikipedia" article is more nuanced than the flat out statement by Grace that all proceeds from the income tax "goes to servicing the interest on the national debt"... "and not to the services"...
what part of that do you not understand? and if you think that this has changed since that time I have not seen your sources on it... where is your evidence that things have changed since the Grace Report?
finally, the notion that the "government" (you havent defined that) "needs" to tax to accomplish "their" ends is a meaningless statement because
1) whats the government? and what are its purposes(fed, state, local,etc) btw feds got all revenue from tarriffs for 200 years before black magic application of IT/FED scam which blew up the monster to something that is ILLEGITIMATE in that its "purposes" are now against the people who are
2) the "government". see in america the people are the sovereign.
when you say "the government needs" you need to define all of those things because i am reading "the people need" and im thinking "No actually i dont need that. thats not my purpose."
then go get yourself a copy of this and read it so you stop being an asshole thinking that men stealing from other men is some kind of legitimate thing buttressed by "government purposes" - whatever the fuck they are: 
