Posted on 08/04/2007 3:29:26 AM PDT by Man50D
Mike Huckabee is a strong advocate for the "fair tax" proposal, which looks to replace the current tax code with essentially a federal sales and use tax.
The former Arkansas governor and GOP presidential candidate attended a noontime rally in support of the tax proposal Thursday in Grundy Center to share his message that such a proposal is good for the American economy.
"It totally revives the economy," Huckabee said in an interview Thursday with IowaPolitics.com. "It encourages entrepreuneurial efforts to make an economy strong."
Aside from the federal sales tax, the plan also includes a "prebate" to ensure no American pays federal taxes on spending up to the poverty level. The fair tax proposal would benefit the lower one-third of income earners in America, Huckabee said, while forcing the "underground economy" -- composed of criminals and others -- to pay their share of taxes, Huckabee said.
Businesses would also benefit from a fair tax plan, he said. Currently, American businesses are paying $250-$500 billion annually to be tax compliant -- money that could instead go toward research and development, the Republican candidate said.
The fair tax would also eliminate the complicated tax code that is currently in place, Huckabee said.
"It would give us a tax code that a seven-year-old running a lemonade stand could understand," he said.
Lobbyists in Washington, D.C. have kept the proposal from becoming a reality, the former governor said. There are 35,000 lobbyists working 535 members of Congress, and that is keeping the fair tax at bay.
"They like a tax system that has winners and losers," Huckabee said. "The fair tax makes much more sense because it brings sense to the tax code."
Tommy Thompson supports the fairtax, and he has a better chance of winning the Hunter. Two of the last three republican presidents were governors. One president was elected while he was a U.S. rep., James Garfield, in 1880.
I say let’s fight for the strongest conservative, Duncan Hunter! He CAN win, if enough of us want the best, badly enough.
Remember how we grassroots folks stopped the amnesty bill.
Together we can make a difference, along with a positive attitude.
This was covered in the GOP debate today.
Tommy Thompson is a stronger candidate. In a straw poll, in Linn Co., Iowa, the second-most populous county in Iowa, Thompson won, with 33%. I haven’t heard of Hunter receiving more than 3% in any national poll or straw poll.
While Tommy Thompson was a governor, for 14 years, he proved that he’s pro-tax cuts, pro-spending cuts, pro-life, pro-capital punishment, pro-gun rights, and anti-gay marriage. He says that he wants to deport more illegal aliens.
Sorry, but I don’t support candidates by poll #’s; I support the BEST candidate.
Rudy is a stronger candidate than Tommy Thompson. Does that mean I should support Rudy? No way!
btw, John Kerry was only 4% in the polls with 3 weeks to go.
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