Fairtax seems ok, but the current code is entrenched with multiple lobbying interests to keep it. Secondly, you tell people, the average person, that you are going to screw around with the tax code they have become used to all their lives....no way, no how.
It's akin to legalizing pot....makes perfect sense, but ain't gonna happen.
Actually I'm glad that some of my relatives were willing to oppose the English and their policies in the late 1700's (at considerable risk to their lives and fortunes) or we might be drinking warm beer now.
Glad to see the American spirit still lives (?) in you???