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The FairTax needs to realize that they need to include the 16th Amendment as part of what they are selling, and not some separate thing to be handled later

You are certainly welcome to that opinion, and you may certainly reject the FairTax bill for not being a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution to prohibit taxation of income.

I prefer take the road that hasn't been tried over the road that has repeatedly proved to end up in nowhere everytime.

There is a term for one who continually insists on doing the same thing over and over again always expecting a different result this time.

like they do with spending control, end entitlement reform

Nothing to prevent you or me for that matter from supporting those bills in congress addressing those issues. The FairTax legislations happens to address tax refrom. I recommend you actively get out and actually support such reforms instead of wasting so much time just fighting legislation you don't like for whatever reason. That just assures the things you do want suffer for lack of your support and of folks hearing about them to become interested in them.

I chose my battles with a priority and overall goals in mind. Tax reform I see as my priority. I am sure you have yours so support them, or not as you will.

You claim to want to reform the way taxes are collected,

As I made clear, I consider that to be a catch 22 situtation. It ain't going to happen that way as a century of trying to pass such joint resolution proposing amendments have been and continue to be a total flop and not about happen with any form of income tax whether it be individual, corporate, or payroll is in the statutes.

why would you only want to do a partial job and leave the heavy lifting of the 16th to others?

What heavy lifting of other's are you pointing out? I don't see many grassroots efforts at all supporting the one joint resolution proposing an amendment would actually abolish taxation of personal incomes,

H.J.RES.14
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d109:h.j.res.00014:
Title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.
Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron [TX-14] (introduced 1/26/2005) Cosponsors (2)
Latest Major Action: 3/2/2005 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution;

The amendment I support in working to the strategic goal of actually ending the taxation of personal incomes in all its forms. Personally even then I wish Ron Paul had limited his joint resolution to just addressing the tax system rather than trying to fix more than one ill per amendment.

Many FairTaxers claim that they would not support the FairTax if the 16th is left standing.

I'm an individual with my own prognosis of what must of necessity come first.

I see it necessary to have a new shoe on my feet and not walking barefoot with no shoes, thereby allowing me to toss the old one out to the garbage in good order.

Most FairTaxers I've communicated with see that distinction and necessity.