SCP Foundation

Ok, so I was just thinking about why the federal income tax exists when it's blatantly against the constitution of the united states

It's not. The 16th amendment says…

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

In other words, the US Federal Government has the ability to create and enforce an income tax.

And the 16th amendment is part of the Constitution.

They feed off of online money… So the Foundation lobbied congress and got the federal income tax to pass and stay in effect in order to feed these things.

In 1862 there wasn't any online money for them to feed off of. Was the Foundation getting ready a hundred plus years in advance? Why?

Also tax money is accounted for, so what does "eating" it mean if it is still can be spent and remain in the money supply. You might as well just feed them the Foundation's own budget since "eating" it has no economic effect.

Hearing this I would question how there is a predator that feeds off of taxes, but the government is observably using money levied from taxes to function and provide federal services?
The thing is, sociologically speaking, democratic countries with higher taxes have better quality of living reported by their residents because they provide more social services.

Since taxes are used for specific tangible things, it might be more compelling to make it so this entity is stealing money from taxes so that we are paying too much for too small amount of services. That's something that is upsetting to people of all political leanings.

As an alternate: What if it were like an explanation for online money scams and that's where the money comes from? The entity has agreed to remain contained so long as it is fed.

The Foundation could be using cyber scams as a money source, or cyber fraud could be a result of their activity.

Questions:

How are they fed money? If they aren't given money and they can't leave the server, how will they survive?

Are they transmitted like a virus, like could they infect a home computer to gain access to a bank account?

Alright let's take a look…

So they are "cyber-based organisms" which have very contradicting properties as organisms need anatomical body parts so unless a random floating body jumps at me while I'm browsing the web this sounds more like an AI or computer virus of some kind.

You claim they can contact humans and the foundation, and assuming that computer didn't really exist or are as largely used now as before, it's a wonder how these 'creatures' survived the early day of the internet.

Anyway another issue arises if they do cause economic collapse as the money they'd be eating are either A) So rare that they can't be readily found and they die or B) The money is super-inflated and eating an equivalent of a dollar is like eating a bread crumb and they die. So both options would result in the deaths of their species.

Next up, if the Foundation does hire lobbyists to lobby congress and pressure them into making and passing a new tax bill to feed more of these things, then the government is basically screwed. Because most Senators and Representatives (who are majority Republicans in both houses) would like to keep the tax rate as it is or reduce it, that would only mean that whatever efforts the Foundation is putting into having this new income tax bill pass is highly unlikely.

Here's a question I ask:
Where does the money go when they are "eaten"? Some off-shore shady bank? Or do they simply disappear? If the latter then the commerce would practically cease as the government realizes that money is growing in value as the actual amount in circulation decreases drastically and then that would probably lead to total government collapse given a few years of this happening.

So honestly, don't like the idea. Would recommend against writing it but you can still try just to experience the process and get a feel of writing articles and coming up with ideas that could work better.