Huckabee increased state spending 65.3% from 1996-2004, funded by 5 state tax increases...though he says he wants to cut taxes through is "Fairtax" national sales tax proposal.
Huckabee as been called the "biggest taxer and spender in Arkansas history"
Huckabee opposed a repeal of a sales tax on groceries and medicine in 2002, raised the gasoline tax in 1999, and signed a $5.25 bed tax on private nursing home patients in 2001.
The Cato Institute gave Huckabee an "F" for spending and tax policy in 2006.
During his tenure as governor the general obligation debt for the state of Arkansas increased by nearly $1 billion.
The 1999 gasoline tax increases were never on an Arkansas ballot yet Huckabee insisted "the fuel tax was a vote of the people—eighty percent of the people voted to improve roads."
Americans for Tax Reform called Huckabee a "serial tax increaser" in 2006.
Huckabee has complained that illegal Hispanic immigrants can not get financial aid for their education, saying denying them state benefits is "un-Christian."
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