Say Anything Blog

The most exciting thing about Mike Huckabee is that I believe he’s the only Presidential candidate talking about replacing the current income tax with a consumption tax (a/k/a a national sales tax).  That’s what the Fair Tax is, and it’s nice to hear a mainstream candidate like Huckabee talk about it even if he is just slightly ahead of Ron Paul in the polls.

Outside of that, Huckabee’s speech was the usual spiel of “let’s cut taxes” and “let’s limit spending,” but that’s a hard line to buy coming from a guy like Huckabee who has a lengthy record of raising taxes as the Governor of Arkansas and supports decidedly non-limited-government initiatives such as a national smoking ban.

So yeah, Huckabee sounds like a good candidate, but to this observer he comes off as insincere.  His deeds don’t match his rhetoric.