Mike Huckabee: Speech 12/8/07

Mike Huckabee
Speech
Asheville, NC 12/8/07

TRANSCRIPT:
HUCKABEE: "We're a nation that needs to change the tax system, it is now so complicated that if you call the IRS two consecutive days, you get two totally different answers. And guess what, both of them are wrong because when you fill out your form, they'll tell you you owe a penalty anyway. Many of you have seen Frank Lutz, the pollster on Fox News Channel. Frank actually polled and actually promises this is the truth, the polls show people are more afraid of an audit by the IRS than they are of getting mugged in this country. And I thought about that and thought that makes perfect sense, when you get mugged, it only lasts a few seconds. And they can only take what you have on you. If you get audited, it's going to take months, if not years, and they don't quit 'til they have every last dime you ever earned. It's time that we have a tax system that's totally different from the one we have, one that doesn't penalize productivity, one that wouldn't tax us on our income, be it corporate or individual [...] one that would be assessed at the consumption end, not the earning end. [applause] People say, how would we possibly survive, well, we'll survive quite well because we could replace the current tax system with the consumption tax, and here's what it does. It untaxes poor people and elderly people. It also makes it so that there's no more underground economy. Right now, you're not just paying your taxes, you're paying those that you're obligated to pay, but you're paying for the drug dealers, the prostitutes, the pimps, the gamblers, the illegals. Under a consumption tax, they become taxpayers just like you. Everybody would pay, and nobody gets to escape it. And guess what, April 15 would become just another beautiful spring day in North Carolina."

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[ONElinerBoJangles]

i love this man soooo emencely!!!

[chukmaty]

It will be a beautiful day indeed.

[ThrasherArt]

Mike Huckabee is going to debate Barack Obama someday and it will be the most anticipated debate in American political history.