The real problem is the 16th amendment. There is no way to reconcile it with property rights to begin with. Taxation is theft, period. And we've seen what that stolen wealth has funded over the last three years in particular: mRNA shots, a war in Ukraine (including funds, material and technical support), a massively pumped-up IRS agency, bailouts of favored banks, unlimited currency creation and borrowing with future taxation as the value basis, bloated DoD budgets, massively bloated government bureaucrat salaries and pensions, government psyop advertising campaigns, ad nauseum/etc. There is no justification for taxation in a free (civilized) society. Government funding must be voluntary as a check on power. That thin edge of the wedge of which you speak in the horror of enslavement (subjugation is fueled by political power) is only possible when the government first gains economic power - taxation.