February 27, 2006

Mike Huckabee is a Tax Hiker

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, a potential candidate for president in 2008, sat down with a few bloggers last week while he was in town for a National Governors Association meeting (Read here and here). He seems to have gotten a fair treatment from them, but nobody asked him why he has been a habitual tax-hiker while in office. Let's run through the laundry list:

  • Huckabee signed a 3-cent gas tax increase in 1999
  • He called for a state sales tax hike in 2002
  • He signed a 25-cent cigarette tax hike in 2003
  • He allowed a major tax hike package to pass in 2004

And this guy wants to be the Republican nominee for president in 2008? He also opposes school choice, and spends money like a drunken sailor (he increased spending 65.3% from 1996 to 2004).

I'm sorry, but he is NOT one of the best Republican governors in the country and he's not presidential material. Period.

(all tax and spending information provided by Americans for Tax Reform - no link)

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