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Mike Huckabee is a [[Baptist]] minister and candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He believes in [[Creationism]] and was the governor of [[Arkansas]]. | Mike Huckabee is a [[Baptist]] minister and candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He believes in [[Creationism]] and was the governor of [[Arkansas]]. | ||
| − | As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee has both cut and raised taxes. For example, during his ten years in office, he enacted a 37% increase in sales taxes, a 16% increase in taxes on motor fuels, and a 103% increase in taxes on the sale of tobacco products; however he also cut taxes over 90 times. | + | As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee has both cut and raised taxes. For example, during his ten years in office, he enacted a 37% increase in sales taxes, a 16% increase in taxes on motor fuels, and a 103% increase in taxes on the sale of tobacco products; however he also cut taxes over 90 times durning that period as well. |
He has criticized President [[George W. Bush]]'s tax cuts as being too oriented towards the wealthy, although the Congressional Budget Office released a [http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5746/08-13-EffectiveFedTaxRates.pdf report] in 2004, that claimed the opposite: | He has criticized President [[George W. Bush]]'s tax cuts as being too oriented towards the wealthy, although the Congressional Budget Office released a [http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/57xx/doc5746/08-13-EffectiveFedTaxRates.pdf report] in 2004, that claimed the opposite: | ||
Revision as of 19:54, March 19, 2007
Mike Huckabee is a Baptist minister and candidate for the 2008 presidential election. He believes in Creationism and was the governor of Arkansas.
As Governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee has both cut and raised taxes. For example, during his ten years in office, he enacted a 37% increase in sales taxes, a 16% increase in taxes on motor fuels, and a 103% increase in taxes on the sale of tobacco products; however he also cut taxes over 90 times durning that period as well.
He has criticized President George W. Bush's tax cuts as being too oriented towards the wealthy, although the Congressional Budget Office released a report in 2004, that claimed the opposite:
Huckabee lost 110 pounds while governor of Arkansas and documented his weight loss and set out a 12-step plan for weight loss in his book Quit Digging Your Grave With a Knife and Fork. [1] He has also made childhood obesity a major platform issue.