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It is obvious that Mike Huckabee is a strong Social-Conservative. However, a number of people who are rather "Fiscal Conservatives" should appreciate his Fair Tax proposals.
1 posted on 01/28/2008 11:08:05 AM PST by BplusK
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FairTaxPlan=3 Card Monty for the Public.


2 posted on 01/28/2008 11:09:04 AM PST by papasmurf (No "Leftovers" for me. I'm votin' for Fred!)
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To: BplusK

Mike Huckabee...who is that anyway??????


3 posted on 01/28/2008 11:09:28 AM PST by Bushwacker777
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I thought Gomer had dropped out and was helping Juan McCain, as his “veep-in-waiting” or something like that...


4 posted on 01/28/2008 11:09:53 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Second To None!)
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Fair Tax probably won’t go over too big in Florida with retired folks.

My parents despise the idea.


5 posted on 01/28/2008 11:10:01 AM PST by dforest (Don't even ask me to vote for McCain, Rudy, or Huckster.)
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I hope he can hold his dwindling base of voters, and keep them from going to McCain.


6 posted on 01/28/2008 11:12:26 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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He was also bragging about his second place (who knew?) in the delegate count on Huck & Friends this morning.


7 posted on 01/28/2008 11:14:53 AM PST by Miss Didi ("Good heavens, woman, this is a war not a garden party!" Dr. Meade, Gone with the Wind)
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To: BplusK
However, a number of people who are rather "Fiscal Conservatives" should appreciate his Fair Tax proposals.

Unless they spent their lives saving income that has already been taxed previous through income tax, and stands to be taxed at a monstrous rate again under the Fair Tax, should they actually try to spend any of it in their retirement.

I can think of few better ways to discourage savings and encourage inflation than the Fair Tax.

10 posted on 01/28/2008 11:17:23 AM PST by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Former FredHead, now a Mittbot.)
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The Fair Tax plan is not a flat tax. Let’s get the facts right.


11 posted on 01/28/2008 11:24:10 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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Huckabee is still in the race? Iowa seems a long time ago!


12 posted on 01/28/2008 11:30:46 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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if we wanted untested ideas that threaten higher taxes we’d be democrats

so no thanks fairtaxers!


13 posted on 01/28/2008 11:31:14 AM PST by ari-freedom (McCain and Huckabee sitting on a tree K I S S I N G. First comes love then comes the end of the GOP)
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I’m voting Huckabee tommorrow. Keep him alive so that he can take some southern states and proportional state delegates and throw this nomination to the convention . . . where anything can happen . . . including a conservative nominee instead of the RINO’s we have to choose from. Huck’s better than Romney and McCain anyway . . .

Romney can’t be trusted on the social issues — he nominated gay activists to the Mass. bench. McCain can’t be trusted on the social issues — he’s been a thorn in Bush’s side regarding judicial nominees.


22 posted on 01/28/2008 11:53:49 AM PST by Greg F (Romney supported the right of homosexuals to be Scout Masters in 1994.)
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I often wonder why Huckabee didn’t attempt to abolish the income tax in Arkansas in those ten years he served. Makes this Fair Tax thing seem like a election time ploy to me.


23 posted on 01/28/2008 11:55:05 AM PST by Sybeck1 (McCain/Huckabee 08! Let's make Mississippi, Texas, and Utah swing states!)
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If Huckabee were the nominee, and I somehow knew that he was going to push for the FairTax hard enough to get it passed, I’d vote for him and ignore all the other stuff. The only problem is that I’m not sure I believe him.

It’s too bad we don’t have a better candidate who’s picked up on the plan.


28 posted on 01/28/2008 12:12:48 PM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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Huckabee is a fool.

He is pushing a national sales tax in a state where the 1991 luxury tax cost an entire industry in the yatch business.

Huckabee DARE not push that sales tax nonsense south of I-4.

He is also advocating a MASSIVE entitlement program. IOW free money to the lower income portion of the state.

He is essentially trying to rescue a sinking campaign by drilling more holes in his boat so the water can flow out.


39 posted on 01/28/2008 12:43:21 PM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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Hey, Huck. How’d that FairTax thing work out for you in Florida?


49 posted on 01/30/2008 9:21:11 AM PST by Your Nightmare
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