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Mike Huckabee: Raise Taxes, Please

by Doug Mataconis @ 10:56 am on November 12, 2007. Filed under 2008 Election, Mike Huckabee, Politics

Here’s Mike Huckabee begging the Arkansas Legislature to raise whatever taxes it wants, it’ll be fine with him:

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chukmaty says:

November 12, 2007 at 12:20 pm

You got to be kidding me, your kidding right?

Do you actually expect people to look at a video out of context and have it overrule the fact that this man CUT taxes 94 times in an overwhelmingly liberal state?

I am really glad we did not have a club for growth around when Reagan was running for President. Reagan raised taxes by a modern equivalent of 10 Billion in California to cover expenses and he went on to define fiscal conservatism. Huckabee has a better record as governor than Reagan had as governor

What mental midgets like you and Matt Drudge do not get is that in a state, a governor does not have the luxury to govern in an ideologically pure manner. One must run a state so trends are much more important than individual instances of having to balance a budget or build a bridge.

Huckabee has a tremendous record of being a conservative in unfriendly territory. Waffling Moneybags Mitt, arch liberal RINO Guiliani, and Fred “K Street” Thompson have nothing on him at all.
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Mike Huckabee: Raise Taxes, Please