What happened: Accused during a debate Wednesday of raising taxes, Huckabee left the impression that he raised only one. “I was governor nearly 11 years, and in that time I cut 90 taxes,” he said. “Over that period of time, the income tax remained exactly what it was. The sales tax is one penny higher.”
Why that’s wrong: While he did preside over many tax reductions, he failed to mention the 21 tax increases on his watch. Factcheck.org says he presided over a net tax increase. The newspaper Arkansas Democrat-Gazette says the state’s taxes went up by $505 million in one year, adjusted for inflation, and that the average Arkansan’s tax burden went from $1,969 to $2,902.
Wow. Thank God Huckabee only “cut taxes” 90 times, eh?
And of course Huckabee is lying! He’s an ordained Southern Baptist Minister! That’s what they do! The wonder would be if that’s all he’s been doing!
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it's proof of how short sighted and/or stupid
people can be, that they don’t seem to remember that they pay more under republicans than dems. everyone remembers when those poor, oppressed rich people pay more (clinton) but forgets that “hidden” taxation (and today, not hidden) plagues every republican administration.
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The press insures this happens, by treating Republican tropes as factual because it fits in with the approved narrative.
Huckabee scares me. I have no doubt that he would institute many of the same policies as Bush, and continue the worst of them. But the press likes him, and the fit with the notion of a compassionate non-ideological conservative who is something new is much better than it was with Bush.
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Huckabee’s an ordained Southern Baptist minister. Somebody needs to ask him if he’s for clergy sex abuse, or against it, and if he’s against it, what he plans to do about it.
We. Are. Going. To. Die. We must restore hope in the world. We must bring forth a new way of living that can sustain the world. Or else it is not just us who will die but everyone. What have we got to lose? Go forth and Fight!—Xan