What’s the point of trying to push through an income tax if it could have been an easy raise on payroll?

Why not just charge it on the paying end (payroll tax)? It would be the same thing but charged from employers.

E.g my Employer pays about 125 to pay me 100 because of payroll tax. Then I receive 70 because the employer also pays my tax directly. My income was only 100 and the total tax was 55.

Seems like this would be something for a Supreme Court to try. It was ordinary laws and cases (presumably) that had established the norms of equating income with property.

But simply changing the constitution to just allow an income tax is politically impossible? The majority isn’t big enough?

So if one has income tax and property tax separate (which I guess happens now) then presumably one has also codified that income is _not_ property (which I guess is the more common state of affairs )?