From Dick Morris's article 'Mike Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative':
A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a "47 percent increase in state tax burden." But during Huckabee's years in office, total state tax burden — all 50 states combined — rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005.
In Arkansas, the income tax when he took office was 1 percent for the poorest taxpayers and 7 percent for the richest, exactly where it stood when he left the statehouse 11 years later. But, in the interim, he doubled the standard deduction and the child care credit, repealed capital gains taxes for home sales, lowered the capital gains rate, expanded the homestead exemption and set up tax-free savings accounts for medical care and college tuition.
Most impressively, when he had to pass an income tax surcharge amid the drop in revenues after Sept. 11, 2001, he repealed it three years later when he didn't need it any longer.
He raised the sales tax one cent in 11 years and did that only after the courts ordered him to do so. (He also got voter approval for a one-eighth-of-one-cent hike for parks and recreation.)
The Arkansas supreme court ORDERED the state to increase funding to schools DRASTICALLY or they would take over our schools. Taxes would have been MUCH HIGHER WITHOUT HUCKABEE!
Also, our Interstate Highways had POT-HOLES! They were TEARING UP OUR VEHICLES! They were deemed the worst in the nation by truckers. WE VOTED IN FAVOR OF FIXING THEM (over 80 percent). Huckabee was the only governor in years Arkansas people TRUSTED TO FIX THE ROADS!
In other words, he would have complained, waffled, then signed the entitlement expansion. Brilliant. Is there are (D) after his name? Oh wait, that's the Republican primary. My bad.
Note that Huckabee doesn't agree that the issue is about children. He doesn't buy into the way the Democrats framed the issue, and he didn't say he'd be crazy about that bill. Imagine if we had a president who TALKED to the American people and kept it from getting the point it did for the President. That's what Huckabee would have done.
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From Dick Morris's article 'Mike Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative':
A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a "47 percent increase in state tax burden." But during Huckabee's years in office, total state tax burden — all 50 states combined — rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005.
JQ10KA 4 years ago
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From Dick Morris's article:
In Arkansas, the income tax when he took office was 1 percent for the poorest taxpayers and 7 percent for the richest, exactly where it stood when he left the statehouse 11 years later. But, in the interim, he doubled the standard deduction and the child care credit, repealed capital gains taxes for home sales, lowered the capital gains rate, expanded the homestead exemption and set up tax-free savings accounts for medical care and college tuition.
JQ10KA 4 years ago
From Dick Morris's article:
Most impressively, when he had to pass an income tax surcharge amid the drop in revenues after Sept. 11, 2001, he repealed it three years later when he didn't need it any longer.
He raised the sales tax one cent in 11 years and did that only after the courts ordered him to do so. (He also got voter approval for a one-eighth-of-one-cent hike for parks and recreation.)
JQ10KA 4 years ago 2
If you don't want Huckabee for president, we, in Arkansas, will DEFINATELY TAKE HIM BACK AS GOVERNOR!!!
user38293 4 years ago 3
The Arkansas supreme court ORDERED the state to increase funding to schools DRASTICALLY or they would take over our schools. Taxes would have been MUCH HIGHER WITHOUT HUCKABEE!
Also, our Interstate Highways had POT-HOLES! They were TEARING UP OUR VEHICLES! They were deemed the worst in the nation by truckers. WE VOTED IN FAVOR OF FIXING THEM (over 80 percent). Huckabee was the only governor in years Arkansas people TRUSTED TO FIX THE ROADS!
user38293 4 years ago 3
In other words, he would have complained, waffled, then signed the entitlement expansion. Brilliant. Is there are (D) after his name? Oh wait, that's the Republican primary. My bad.
killjoycranks 4 years ago
Note that Huckabee doesn't agree that the issue is about children. He doesn't buy into the way the Democrats framed the issue, and he didn't say he'd be crazy about that bill. Imagine if we had a president who TALKED to the American people and kept it from getting the point it did for the President. That's what Huckabee would have done.
deliriou5freak 4 years ago 8
Talk is cheap. Him being unable to say whether or not he'd have vetoed a huge increase in socialized medicine is enough for me not to support him.
OnGuard4Liberty 4 years ago