The problem is they pay no income tax now. As such, the middle class must make up for that. The burden is redistributed to someone to pay for another.
Under the FairTax everyone will pay their portion, period. Will it be an increase, yes. One they should have been helping with all along paying for the running of their government, rather than being an expenditure of theirgovernment. Now, yes government spends to much but that is another subject all together.
Tax reform has nothing to do with and does not impact spending reform. The FairTax is revenue neutral, so it collects the dame as being collected under the income tax now.
It is just that 100% of the country, consumers all, will be paying it.
Now the poor will also get a tax break with the FairTax, just like everyone else in that payroll taxes will not be taken out of their paychecks any longer. An increase in their available funds to spend.
The prebate reimburses them for the taxes they would pay up to the (their) poverty level. They are not out any money. How is that an increase in what they are paying. Thus they pay no tax, in net terms. Only on what they would purchase above that level with their new increase in spendable funds.
Republicans have always tried to hard to appease everyone to get their vote. when they do they miss the long term implications of most every subject they discuss with their blinders on. The Dems are the same but their blinders are to the facts.
It’s not a tough sell, it short-sightedness.