Huckabee: Is he a Fiscal Conservative?

Question

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/11/huckabee_is_a_fiscal_conservat.html

Read this link first, then give me your thoughts and opinions.
PLEASE BACK UP YOUR STATEMENTS WITH FACTS, NOT LIBEL/SLANDER/RHETORIC

Answer 1

Yes, so long as the net cost of his policy decisions (i.e., continuing the war in Iraq) and current government spending do not exceed the existing net revenue generated by taxes. His position on the war does not undermine his claim to be a fiscal conservative per se. He'll just have to make some tough decisions about what other spending or borrowing he'd like to cut in order to reduce the deficit. Being a fiscal conservative doesn't mean you never spend money on government programs, it just means that you seek to minimize taxes, government spending and debt.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

no read my link -http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071128/ap_po/huckabee_record;_ylt=Amat80rxGEDBbGhC12Jfznms0NUE

here are excerptsHuckabee likes to say he was tough on taxes in Arkansas, noting a $100 million tax cut in 1997 that until this year was Arkansas' largest. When asked about a fuel tax increase he backed in 1999, Huckabee says incorrectly that he joined 80 percent of Arkansas voters in approving it.

Huckabee in 1999 supported a $1 billion highway bond program, including costs for interest and lawyers' fees, but the question on the ballot was only whether the state could take on the debt, not how Arkansas would pay for it. Huckabee had signed the fuel tax increase two months earlier.

Shortly after taking office, Huckabee took a four-day trip by bass boat along the Arkansas River to tout a 1/8th-cent sales tax increase for outdoor programs. (Two nature centers now carry the names of Huckabee and his wife.) Taxes went up $40 million in the months before the $100 million tax cut Huckabee touts.

Other taxes went up as Arkansas changed its property tax system and made improvements to its school system.
the panel investigated 16 complaints against Huckabee and found five violations. Only one, for accepting a $500 canoe from Coca-Cola, was tossed out.

Two of the complaints against Huckabee pertain to unreported gifts — the canoe and a $200 stadium blanket received by his wife, Janet. Two stem from cash the governor or his wife received but did not initially report. The panel also ruled in 2003 that Huckabee's campaign violated state law when it used its funds to pay for an event during the summer of 2002 called Gospel Fest

During his tenure, Huckabee accepted 314 gifts valued overall at more than $150,000, according to documents filed with the Arkansas secretary of state's office. (He accepted 187 gifts in his first three years as governor but was not required to report their value.)

Answer 4

No, I livedin Arkansas for a while while he was Governor, and he raised the taxes like 110%. And he was only physically conservative to social programs.

Answer 5

I think he is, the more I hear about him the more I like him. One thing is for sure, he cant be no worse than what we now have, and all of the others that are running.

Answer 6

If your idea is to continue this war by borrowing money from China or to just continue this war, then no, you are not a fiscal conservative.

That would make Ron Paul the only fiscal conservative running.

http://www.newswithviews.com/baldwin/baldwin414.htm

Answer 7

Anybody who supports Bush's war is no fiscal conservative. Of course, to dilute Ron Paul's support, all you'd have to do is tell one person, "Can you come over here a second?"

Answer 8

Sort of, but I can't see how he is a conservative if he supports this war and won't withdraw.

We borrow almost 3 billion a week from China to fund this war.

Ron Paul is way more conservative IMHO. He also understands the dollar way better. THIS video is very important, as an American, I ask you to PLEASE watch this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFdXw-rilEk