Pro-border security and immigration enforcement? Not according to his record.
Small government fiscal conservative? Try again...
Pro private/home education? Then why is the NEA for him and the HSDLA against him?
I like Huckabee's positions on life, marriage and RKBA, but he is at best a moderate on fiscal issues, questionable on immigration issues, and an unknown quantity on national security. I am not for McCain either.
Huckabee is mischaracterized as liberal on economic issues.
Huckabee gets negative press for the sales tax going up. I have much less issue sales taxes esp at the state level then I do with income taxes, as sales taxes are voluntary and income taxes are not. Taxing work/productivity/income is evil. Income taxes/property taxes/estate taxes are central the tenants of marxism, sales taxes are not.
Huckabee’s positives on taxes:
Pushed through a Democrat legislature the first, major broad based tax cuts in the state’s history (168 years)
Pushed through a Democrat legislature an $80 million tax cut package.
Cut the state’s capital gains tax by 25%.
Established a Property Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
Limited the increase in property taxes to 10% a year for individuals and 5% per taxing unit
Eliminated the income tax for families below the poverty line.
Increased the standard deductions.
Eliminated the marriage penalty.
Eliminated bracket creep by indexing the income taxes to inflation, thereby preventing taxpayers from moving into a higher bracket when their paychecks increase due to inflations.
Doubled the child care tax credit.
Eliminated capital gains tax on the sale of a home.