Thanks for the straight talk on Huckabee...the anti Huckabee rhetoric and lies are getting to be ridiculous even around here.
It’s not straight talk, its double talk. Mike Huckabee increased spending and taxes massively while governor. He created new welfare programs, and begged for taxes to be raised:
http://taxhikemike.pjdoland.com/2007/11/huckabees_profound_thanks_for.html
This is a CORE issue of fiscal responsibility, and Mike Huckabee flunked it. No self-respecting conservative can support that tax-and-spend record. He was ranked 45th out of 50, worse even than all but the most tax-and-spend liberal Democrats.
These are the tax hikes Mike Huckabee passed:
http://taxhikemike.org/
Huckabee’s Laundry List of Tax Hikes
* Signed a sales tax hike in 1996 (Cato Policy Analysis No. 315, 09/03/98).
* Supported an internet sales tax in 2001 (Reuters, 02/23/04).
* Publicly opposed the repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 09/11/02).
* Signed a gas tax in 1999 (Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 06/29/99)
* Signed cigarette tax hike in 2003 (Americans for Tax Reform 01/07/07)
* Signed a bed tax on private nursing home patients in 2001 (Associated Press 06/29/01).
* Proposed a sales take hike in 2002 (Arkansas News Bureau 12/05/02).
* Opposed a congressional measure to ban internet taxes in 2003 (Arkansas News Bureau 11/21/03).
* Allowed a 17% sales tax increase to become law in 2004 (The Gurdon Times 03/02/04).