I disagree. Huckabee uses the language of the left when he talks about fiscal issues. It is not the responsibility of the government to redistribute wealth. The more it has done this the more costly and debt laden it has become to get and education, to buy a house, to get health care. The idea that the government can someone how be the arbitrator of fairness to such an extent that it tries to compensate people for the unfortunate time, place, or situation they were born into is a recipe for disaster.
I do believe it is the purview of the government to address when companies are cheating customers and to resist the creation of laws that benefit cooperations at cost of individual rights and customer recourse. Huckabee however like most bureaucrats seem absolutely disinterested in doing those small things that could really empower a citizen to control their lives against great financial interests that wish to treat customers as dupes and near slaves.
The bureaucrats like Huckabee don’t want to relieve the burden of the common man anymore than a doctor performing lobotomies had the best interest of their patients when they severed the prefrontal cortex of patients. They of course would’ve claimed that is exactly what they were doing. That the patient did not know what was best for them that putting a hole in their head would be beneficial to all involved.
Huckabee is pretty much a Jack Kemp type in his economics.
Coming up on Leno now. Maybe you’d like to hear him.