The Fair Tax is regressive and unfair to low income families. Some would argue that socialism requires regressive taxes.
... on spending were better than the supposed “capitalists” we have been told to support currently and in the past (Bush, Romney, etc ....).
Huckabee raised taxes in Arkansas as governor. That is not (fiscally or economically) conservative at all.
My belief on this is that his past as a pastor, combined with his “down home” way of speaking, made the secular class of Republicans and talking heads so uncomfortable that they viewed him negatively from the beginning.
My main problems with Mike Huckabee, aside from being yet another GOP tax-and-spender, included the fact that he is soft on crime (pardoning a violent sex offender, common sense would always dictate one says no to that!), wrong on the War on Terror (openly critical of Bush's foreign policy, do we really need that on "our" side?), and anti-school-choice (endorsed by the NEA).
Just because someone is pro-life doesn't mean that the same someone can simply label themselves a "conservative."
The Fair Tax is regressive and unfair to low income families. Some would argue that socialism requires regressive taxes.
The Fair Tax is less regressive than the system we now have when you include the social security and medicaid taxes.
We will disagree on Huckabee, I liked him as a candidate. I don’t think the Fair Tax is regressive (that is a discussion that takes more time than we have in this forum to have) and believe the positive economic effects to our country would help the rich, middle class and poor alike by encouraging people to actually generate income.
As for his record on taxation, he did raise taxes, but he also cut several and balanced his budgets every eyar. Other Republicans have had far worse fiscal records (I would argue Mitt’s record in MA was worse), but they were not been villified for it as he was. He was also the author of the Tax Me More Fund that earned him parise from Club for Growth and other conservative tax organizations. THe ACU even gave him the “Friend of Taxpayers” award. This idea that he was a “tax and spend” liberal was new to this year’s election process. Heck, he was a “Freeper” Governor, participating in our forum occasionally and earning praise while governor, while in office and his band played at the Freeper inaugural ball!
He was right on WOT, the one comment was made that most of us disagreed with, but it had no implications for his policy. He actually stated he would go into Pakistan without their permission to get Bin Laden, something Bush won’t do. He was going to stay in Iraq, just like McCain and everyone else but Paul. The soft on crime tag is a weak one, as he also put to death 16 times more than anyone else in his state’s history. The laws in AR make it easier to file for clemency. As for the anti-school choice, we agree on that one, but that is not a federal issue, so I had no problem voting for him as president.