[2ndDivisionVet]

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[boycott]

I have zero interest in what Huckabee has to say. I am tuned out.

[iowacornman]

There is only one man to save this country. A man of honor, education , life skills and actual performance under pressure . That man in Doctor Ben Carson!!! Go Doctor!! Always remember that little bushhies brother ripped up the constitution and invaded your privacy with the Meta intrusion in your phone calls and emails and twitters. He should be arrested!!

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

This article is misdirection. It masks the fact that Huckabee is a religious statist and pro open-borders.

[Fungi]

He can't, he's too fat. /s

[Jack Hydrazine]

Let’s see if he throws out any great Hucksterisms!

[Alex Murphy]

For years, Huckabee has been one of the main proponents of the “Fair Tax,” a plan that would replace all federal taxes with a national sales tax. Citizens for Tax Justice and the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation have each found that to raise the same amount of revenue as current law, the sales tax rate would have to be about 50 percent.

A study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP) found that under the “Fair Tax,” the top 1 percent of taxpayers would receive an average annual tax cut of $225,000. Meanwhile, the plan would increase taxes by about $3,200 on average on the bottom 80 percent of taxpayers. In other words, Huckabee’s tax plan would significantly increase taxes on the overwhelming majority of Americans to pay for huge tax cuts for the very wealthiest Americans.

Was just talking about this yesterday. I'll repeat what I posted there:

As part of his 2008 bid, Huckabee proposed a 23% national sales tax in addition to existing local sales taxes. That adds up to 30%+ in most areas. Huckabee needs to prove why voters should render an over 30% tax to Caesar, but only a 10% tithe to God.

Any time a culture rejects God's sovereignty over them, looks to government to save them, and neglects to combine a robust faith with the virtue of personal responsibility, that decision will cost the people dearly....Contrary to the thinking of many, Government isn't divinely authorized or sufficiently competent to provide things such as housing, food, child-care, health care, etc. Just because someone is in need that doesn't give the state the right to coercively take another person's property and give it to someone the government says should have it. That kind of taxation is not charitable and neither is it moral. Instead, it is a violation of the 8th Commandment of God, "Thou shalt not steal"....
-- from the thread Tax Time and the Bible's Story About Government

[GeronL]

congressional Joint Committee on Taxation have each found that to raise the same amount of revenue as current law, the sales tax rate would have to be about 50 percent.

Half of everything that is spent would be taxes? I doubt it

[oldplayer]

This article falsely portrays the fair tax as regressive and evil and then tries to tie Huck to it. That’s unfair. Even to the Huck.

The Fair Tax as envisioned by Neil Bortz and lots of others is a term that covers a range of schemes. None call for a 50% sales tax.

Oldplayer

[Rabin]

Snake Oil Mike is a consument shill. A select Rodham (Bill like) RicoRat of Hope, last in the nation Ak.

Rab.