Repealing an Amendment is much more difficult and time consuming than passing a law. Lawmakers are basically lazy. You do the math.
The unapportioned Income tax was fifty years in the making.
FairTax passage will be less than twenty years in the making.
The ALEC and Congressional leaders of the FairTax will draft Congress into a convention to repeal the 16th just as soon as the grassroots has had a couple more years to spread the message.
If the Convention to repeal the 16th starts in 2010-2011, the ratification process will take two more years.
Repeal the 16th in 2013 is symbolic, 100 years to the day that the deception was amended into the US Constitution.
Some laws such as minor amendments are passed quickly, others take years. Also lawmakers are not lazy, they and their staffs work long hours.
There is no math to do. It is a process, not a calculation.
What else you got to add? American legislators are too corrupt to do away with special favors in the the income tax code blah, blah, blah?
I have heard it all and despite the hecklers, the drive-by snipes and the usual set of disruptors, the FairTax movement keeps growing and at an increasing rate, not only in Congress but at the grassroots as well.