You post: "This would cut the power of the congress critters. It just won't happen."
Hi there, "half-empty."
Congress critters first line of concern is their butts and keeping them in DC.
If they see an issue that has an overwhelming majority of support - and plenty of noise direct from us, like in US - they may not like it, but they like not being voted out better.
'Don't know if you are just naturally a pessimistic, thumb-sucker or have an ox in the game that will get gored by a FAIR TAX - like an IRS employee - of which there are, what, over 136,000 = then there are the tax preparers, tax lawyers, crooked C-critters, especially the demSocialists who know that they cannot rule a people without the knife-at-throat weapon of the IRS. But for the majority of "US" - we choose freedom...Our glass is 'half full' and getting fuller - hmmm- 86%? Gonna be overflowing soon.
This is the Best site on FAIR TAX - and following, Linder's site...
http://www.geocities.com/cmcofer/ftax.html
http://linder.house.gov/index.cfm?Fuseaction=Resources.Home&Resource_id=1