Just saw your sig picture.

I appreciate the humor, but in real life a tax on happiness wouldn't get anywhere at all: just about everybody is unhappy about being taxed, and there goes all your revenue.

Tax unhappiness. Then you might have something.

"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain--that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist." --Lysander Spooner, 1867