Oh, I didn't realize you were serious. I regard that as an unproven theory. People certainly haven't indicated they put out a whole bunch of energy on taxes. If there were a federal referendum like there are state referendums, I might say you have a point. . . nah, not even then.
This is an extraordinary claim. It's the notion that Congress will raise the tax through various methods and reasoning available to it, then outraged citizens will force them to lower it back again. Or rumor will circulate the tax will be raised and outraged citizens will keep them from doing it.
Here is the guiding principle, I think. People get used to things. They have a "normalizing" mechanism. Shortly after an event change, it becomes "normal". Politicians have been using that principle for years.
You may believe it. I don't.
Hmmm...I'm starting to think you aren't really very serious yourself. I'm obviously wasting my time talking to you, so in closing, I'll tell you what I've told many critics of the FairTax: This is the only shot we've got at returning to a system of taxation that resembles what the Founders had in mind for America. (Read Federalist #21.)
So, your obstructionism amounts to de facto support for the status quo, ie, the communist-inspired leviathan known as the Federal Income Tax.