You overlook one important factor.
Only a benevolent dictator would institute the fair tax. You can kid yourself all you want about grass roots stuff. Americans are not nearly PO'd enough to even make a slight stab at it.
Are you serious? Don't you know that only a handful of colonists enabled the Revolution? What are you talking about? I have seen thread after thread about the loss of our Constitution and the loss of our Bill of Rights and how maybe, maybe there should be the blood of tyrants on the tree of liberty. Well here we have the chance for the greatest transfer of power from Washington to the people since the Revolution and all you can say is that Americans are not nearly PO'd enough. Shame on you.