No sir, you are misinformed by over a century of propaganda about what the law says and the courts have said.

"The Income Tax IS Only Written And Administered As An Excise On Privilege"

"...the tax law, as written, confines itself carefully and scrupulously to nothing but gains resulting from the exercise of federal privilege, just as any federal excise tax must do.

It is not by accident or oversight that, for instance, the "wages" subject to the tax, or the phrase "trade or business" as used in the context of the tax, are custom-defined in the law."