Look at what happened to Burns in PA12: he offered limited support for the fair tax and was immediately hammered for wanting to increase sales taxes by 23%. He was predicted to win. He LOST big, in my opinion, by 12,000 votes.
And one of the reasons he lost is not because people like you and me and yes a growing number understand the fair tax...he lost because the average voter in Johnstown and surrounding areas doesn’t understand the fair tax but they DO understand 23% sales tax. The fair tax just can’t be reduced to an effective sound byte...but raise your taxes 23% definitely CAN be reduced to a sound byte.
Hence my comment.
If you're going to get a "fair tax" considered, you'll have to take into account that everyone pays sales taxes. A large percentage pay no income taxes.
I'd be willing to to get on board something like that, but only with guarantees that we probably cannot get that the income tax will be killed and stay dead, otherwise we'll end up with both, as in Japan.