Huckabee tries to compensate with a sales-tax scheme that allows him to say he supports eliminating the IRS, but is so wildly implausible that it would be a liability in a general election.
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he may be very popular for this fair tax, which has a lot of grass roots support. It just doesn’t work, especially for a big tax and spender like Huck.
Even if we DID have a sales tax, we would need SOME type of agency to enforce that.
Can you imaging the big underground economy that would develop with a sales-tax ONLY type of economy.
So Huckabee's claim of eliminating the "IRS" is a straw dog, just like his entire candidacy.