I remember this so very clearly - I nearly blew a gasket (as did many others) - but with a Dem controlled state legislature - they were salivating at the prospect of having his co-operation in jacking the taxes up yet again.
And lest we forget: Huckabee also refused and fought rabidly against cutting the grocery taxes. It took his liberal Democrat successor to agree to cut those taxes... go figure.
You would think that the amount of money the Huckabee family spends on groceries (have y’all seen that family photo circulating on the net?) he would want to cut the grocery tax!