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But the record offers a more complex and nuanced picture. While taxes did rise in the 10 years that Mr. Huckabee was governor, the portrayal of him as a wild-eyed spendthrift is hardly apt. For the most part, Mr. Huckabee’s tax initiatives had wide bipartisan support, with the small number of Republicans in the overwhelmingly Democratic state legislature voting for the tax increases and many maintaining that the state was better for them.

Any time I see nuanced, the RED flag goes up. Taxes didn't just go up, they went from $6 to $16 billion {almost triple}.

The huckster is pro-tax, pro-illegal and said he wants to close gitmo. He is not my candidate.

Let's clear some things up. Our county has just under a million people. We spend over $2 billion per annum on schools.

Arkansas has just under 3 million people. If they maintained the public schools to the level we do ours (Fairfax County VA which has, arguably, the best public school system in America), you'd spend about $6 billion per year.

If that equaled the taxes you raise, there'd be nothing whatsoever left for weights, measures, state police, dams, roads, public planning, state universities, public hospitals, public health workers, and so forth. The entirity of the rest of your state government could simply be dismissed.

Which raises in my mind your competency to assess whether or not the Huck was ripping off the state or simply working to improve your public infrastructure.