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Conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly says Huckabee “destroyed the conservative movement in Arkansas, and left the Republican Party in shambles
During his years in Little Rock, Huckabee raised the state’s sales tax by 37%, the gas tax by 16% and the cigarette tax by 103% (all fall particularly hard on the poor). State spending went up a staggering 65.3% — three times the inflation rate. The state’s workforce grew by 20% and Arkansas’ general obligation debt increased $1 billion.
Huckabee also backs the so-called DC voting rights bill, telling reporters that DC residents are “American citizens. They pay taxes and it just doesn’t seem right that someone could be at least partially disenfranchised.”
When there was a bill before the Arkansas legislature to require proof of citizenship to vote and to cut off most government services to illegals, Huckabee did a passable impression of Linda Chavez, claiming the measure “inflames those who are racists and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem. But there’s not.”