“A more salient question would be, “How many of the millions accountants, tax preparers and IRS employees would vote for someone who promised him or her he would eliminate his or her job?”
Perhaps salient to your perspective, but not at all responsive to my question. Nearly all who benefit from the present tax structure will vote against tax change.
What I was pointing out, eviddently not clearly enough, is that I am of the opinion that the Joe Six Packs vastly outnumber the tax beneficiaries.
Almost all sane people will vote against the FairTax once they understand it. And there is no way it can get passed without the roaches hiding inside it from being exposed to the light.
True dat. Numerically speaking, I would argue that the Joe Sixpacks even more vastly outnumber illegal border-crossers and welfare recipients and other groups of completely non-productive people and even talk of cutting them off can't garner a majority of sizable note.
So I don't know how anyone could expect people to vote for someone who says he or she is going to throw millions of their fellow Americans out of work.
I could be wrong. But I just don't see it happening.