“Huckabee’s term as governor (1996-2007) led to a modest increase in the overall State-Local tax burden for Arkansas: from 10.1% in the year he became governor to 11.1% the last year he served.”
ROLFLMAO! You call INCREASING THE BURDEN OF GOVT ON THE ECONOMY BY 10% “MODEST”???
The fiscal conservative thing to do is to shrink Government in proportion to the economy, not GROW THE GOVERNMENT BIGGER THAN THE ECONOMY IS GROWING, which is what Huckabee did.
That burden is ON TOP of the increase in Government due to the population, economy, etc. Only a tax-and-spend liberal could increase the size of Government like that!
Every two years, the Cato Institute grades the 50 governors on fiscal stewardship. Here’s last year’s assessment of Tax Hike Mike: they ranked him 45th out of 50, near dead last.
Thanks to a final term grade of F, Huckabee earns an overall grade of D for his entire governorship. Like many Republicans, his grades dropped the longer he stayed in office. In his first few years, he fought hard for a sweeping $70 million tax cut package that was the first broad-based tax cut in the state in more than 20 years. He even signed a bill to cut the state’s 6 percent capital gains tax—a significant pro-growth accomplishment. But nine days after being reelected in 2002, he proposed a sales tax increase to cover a budget deficit caused partly by large spending increases that he proposed and approved, including an expansion in Medicare eligibility that Huckabee made a centerpiece of his 1997 agenda. He agreed to a 3 percent income tax “surcharge” and a 25-cent cigarette tax increase. In response to a court order to increase spending on education, Huckabee proposed another sales tax increase.
http://taxhikemike.org
Huckabee’s record is one of a tax-and-spend liberal. You can either lie about it and pretend its not a tax-and-spend record, or you can pretend it doesn’t matter. Save the koolaid for the Huckster supporters. they are obviously the ones drinking it.
- PRO-LIFE
- PRO-1st Amendment
- PRO-2nd Amendment
- PRO-10th Amendment
- ANTI-GLOBALIST
- PRO-ISRAEL (no to land giveaways)
- PRO-MARRIAGE
- SMALL GOVERNMENT Fiscal Conservative
- PRO-AMERICAN BUSINESS
- PRO-OPPORTUNITY
- PRO-WAGE EARNER
- PRO-Individual Healthcare Empowerment
- PRO-Private/Home Education
It would be shameful not to back him up vs. McCain.