The bulk of those that are against the FairTax fall into two categories:
1. Beltway Lobbyists, contractors and their employees dependent on current Tax Code provisions.
2. Persons led astray by anti-FairTax propaganda, often promulgated by those connected with 1. above.
Socialists and other fringe leftist groups are also against the FairTax but their numbers are small in comparison with the two categories listed above.
Tax gaming is a growth industry. Since the last major tax reform in 1986, there have been more than 16,000 tax amendments and a quadrupling in the number of Beltway tax lobbyists to now more than 23,000.
Clearly the current Tax Code provides a comfortable living for those 23,000+ tax lobbyists.
But one shouldn’t worry. After all, the FairTax legislation has won all debates in committee and has survived all attempts to poke holes in its design and prospective effects in Congressional hearings. So the battle is now over tax lobbyist fiefdoms and turf, and the means of waging battle is populist propaganda.
Getting back to numbers, it’s a battle for the hearts and minds of 144,000,000 filers versus 23,000+ power suits on K Street.