Yep.... it would definitely help curtail the shenanigans.

All personal properties including houses, papers, dogs, ponies, fields are effects at least in my mind; I wonder why it was decided to be extra specific regarding specific types of effects such as houses, papers...... I am in favor of simplifying the amendment to read "...persons and effects...", or perhaps to read "...persons, and properties..." I guess I'll need to rummage around in the legal dictionaries to learn if there is/are definition(s) for the words "Property" or "Effects" since it is with the sometimes very odd, and self serving definitions that are used by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches to bend you over & stick it in dry leaving you very sore & unhappy with life and an apparent failure to obtain justice.

Nice to learn there is someone else who remembers history, and understands when in our timeline we allowed our professional thieves, liars, and thugs a.k.a. politicians to stop being held accountable. What amazes me is that so many Americans fall victim to the illusion that everyone must pay Federal Taxes, and that we are beholden to the Federal Government when the opposite is true. I have been kicking in the teeth of the IRS for a few years; now that I have taken the time to read & learn what our constitution says with out making assumptions, and taken time to read & learn what USC (United States Code) Title 26 IRC (Internal Revenue Code) says without making assumptions. People need to understand, that the entire Federal Taxation System is based on a word-smith illusion. At the very least, take the time to download a copy of USC Title 26 IRC and read the list of "Defined Terms" presented in Subtitle F--Procedure and Administration Chapter 79--Definitions 7701. Definitions. The words you read and assume to have a particular meaning are NOT the same as the Defined Terms presented in this willfully and knowingly convoluted pile of crap designed to trick you. The illusion is broken when you learn that our so called representatives are lying to your face using Defined Terms that you assume posses the same meaning as common use words. Remember this, every time you see one of the Defined Terms as it is written through out the body of USC Title 26 IRC you need to substitute it with the Definition that is tucked away in an obscure subtitle, or sub chapter and even within the same paragraph you are reading to understand what is truly being stated. For example, a "State" is not what you might think such as Kansas, Florida, New York..... rather it starts off being defined as:

The term ‘‘State’’ shall be construed to include the District of Columbia, where such construction is necessary to carry out provisions of this title.

This definition is continuously redefined throughout the body of USC Title 26 IRC so that ultimately you need to understand that in generic terms a "State" is a Federal Territory. So if you live in Washington D.C., Puerto Rico, American Somoa, etc.... you are a "U.S. Citizen" For the rest of us we are Citizens of our Sovereign States which are members of the Democratic Republic "The United States of America", it is with regard to the international community and certain aspects of our democratic republic that were are addressed as Citizens of the United States of America. Pay attention to the minutia, this is how you are shepherded into your illusory holding pens by not understanding the distinct differences and jurisdictional scope of authority limits.

For those of you that misunderstand what the 16th Amendment is about, it DOES NOT GRANT the Federal Government any new power. The Federal Government has always had the authority to tax "Income." Do not assume Income is all sources of revenue that you have, Income is a DEFINED TERM and has very strict limits of what it is. Don't take my word for it, look up the following cases "Pollock v. Farmers Loan & Trust, 157 U.S. 429 and 158 U.S. 601 (1895)," and "Brushaber v. Union Pacific R. Co., 240 U.S. 1 (1916)" then understand why SCOTUS wrote noting that Article 1, Section 9 Constitutional prohibition on unapportioned direct taxes had not been repealed:

"We are of the opinion, however, that the confusion is not inherent, but rather rises from the conclusion that the 16th Amendment provides for a hitherto unknown power of taxation; that is, a power to levy an income tax which, although direct, should not be subject to the regulation of apportionment applicable to all other direct taxes. And the far-reaching effect of this erroneous assumption will be made clear by generalizing the many contentions advanced in argument to support it..."
"But it clearly results that the proposition and the contentions under it, if acceded to, would cause one provision of the Constitution to destroy another; that is, they would result in bringing the provisions of the Amendment exempting a direct tax from apportionment into irreconcilable conflict with the general requirement that all direct taxes be apportioned."

I can't say this any more simply, unless you engage in an optional or privileged activities that fall under Federal jurisdiction you do not owe FICA, Social Security, Medicare or any other "indirect tax" Even if you filled out a W-4, or W-9 odds are you still do not owe these taxes, and in fact are due a full refund of all with holding. It is our ignorance of Law, and making assumptions about what meanings of words are that have allowed these parasitic politicians to rob us of our wealth through our willing acquiescence by believing the illusion is reality. Take time to read the Tax & Revenue Acts and understand that they are law, and that USC Title 26 IRC is not law but merely an administrative policy & procedure document in which an interpretation of the Tax & Revenue Acts are willfully & knowingly put forward in a many to trick you into believing a tax is owed even when you have not engaged in an optional or privileged activity that falls under Federal jurisdiction.

I recommend you stop following political party lines and always vote independently, and to vote for Statesmen, not Politicians. And for goodness sake remember that these Federal Taxes most people whine about are NEW, that have not always been a part of our nation and do not need to continue to be and there is no need for the IRS to exist other than to serve as thugee for Politicians whom have tricked us in to allowing them to become our Federal Overlords. Think about how much more responsive your Federal, State, County/Parish, Municipal representatives would be if you actually took time to hold them accountable and didn't let them bedazzle you with BS because you actually understand what the law says by not making assumptions of what words mean and forcing them to stop the needless word smith illusions put forward.

Guess what, I am not a lawyer, but I have no problem understanding what these laws say and neither will you if the same principles of logical, analytical problem solving that we use in programming / engineering are applied. Most laws are written to follow Boolean math structure, either all conditions are true and you meet the criteria of a law or you do not. It only becomes complicated when assumptions are made. Law is explicit, and implicit not assumed, nor implied unless like the typical I don't care because I don't have time, or whatever flipping excuse you make allows our representatives to get away with this behavior.