Does not fit.
Huckabee is mischaracterized as liberal on economic issues.
Huckabee gets negative press for the sales tax going up in a state with a balanced budget amendment. I have much less issue sales taxes esp at the state level then I do with income taxes, as sales taxes are voluntary and income taxes are not. Taxing work/productivity/income is evil. Income taxes/property taxes/estate taxes are central the tenants of marxism, sales taxes are not.
Huckabee’s positives on taxes:
Pushed through a Democrat legislature the first, major broad based tax cuts in the state’s history (168 years)
Pushed through a Democrat legislature an $80 million tax cut package.
Cut the state’s capital gains tax by 25%.
Established a Property Taxpayers’ Bill of Rights
Limited the increase in property taxes to 10% a year for individuals and 5% per taxing unit
Eliminated the income tax for families below the poverty line.
Increased the standard deductions.
Eliminated the marriage penalty.
Eliminated bracket creep by indexing the income taxes to inflation, thereby preventing taxpayers from moving into a higher bracket when their paychecks increase due to inflations.
Doubled the child care tax credit.
Eliminated capital gains tax on the sale of a home.
That is not a socialist.
Does anyone know where I can find a “voting record” of Huckabee?
not a socialist?
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/?FuseAction=Issues.View&Issue_id=23
He also believes in public schools over private and home schools. Pretty strange for a religious ‘conservative.’
http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/19232014.html
Arts classes and tuition for illegals comes first I guess
you wrote:
Huckabee gets negative press for the sales tax going up in a state with a balanced budget amendment. I have much less issue sales taxes esp at the state level then I do with income taxes, as sales taxes are voluntary and income taxes are not.
but he wants a sales tax to replace the income tax. That will raise taxes on a lot of people and his own experience with it shows it will go up.