[Mind-numbed Robot]

Bottom line is when the vast majority pays a basic federal income tax rate of 15% or less, nobody gives a flying fig about the FT except politicians using the half-truths and buzzwords when addressing "the masses" just to get reelected.

Isn't that contradictory? If few care how could it be popular enough to get one elected?

It seems to me that the FairTaxers are the ones swimming against the tide, those with a vested interest in the present system are resisting any change.

[xcamel]

Not really contradictory, because the lie that has become the truth is that the "IRS" et al and the "tax code" are more evil than Satan himself, and only a fast talking pol can save them from personal economic apocalypse, and or the black-helicopter, jack-booted, gun-totin tax gestapo.