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Huckabee Sinks to a New Low (Yes, It’s Possible)
March 6, 2015
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Tax-Hike-Mike Learns the Meaning of Chutzpah
April 13, 2010
There’s an old joke that illustrates what chutzpah means. It goes like this… Chutzpah is when a man convicted of killing his parents pleads for mercy because he is an orphan.
This joke came to mind this morning when I read that Janet Huckabee, the wife of former governor, failed presidential candidate, and Fox TV personality, Mike Huckabee, has bought a home and established legal residence in Florida. The couple will still maintain their house in Arkansas, but establishing legal residency in Florida will help the couple avoid Arkansas’ high personal income and sales taxes.
Florida has no personal income tax, while Arkansas’ income tax quickly rises to a top marginal rate of 7%. And state and local sales taxes hover around 10% in Arkansas, compared to 6% in Florida.
It would be perfectly appropriate and normal for someone to change residences so as to minimize taxes if Huckabee hadn’t been personally responsible for helping raise those taxes, which he and his wife are now seeking to avoid.
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Posted by Jay P. Greene
Huckabee Believes Aliens Caused Market Crash
October 13, 2008Actually, he doesn’t. But what he does suggest is almost as crazy.
In an interview with Chuck Norris on his new Fox News show, Huckabee says that a friend of his in the financial business told him that the pattern of trading suggests that the crash may be the result of “economic terrorism.” The Huckster emphasizes that his friend is not just some guy on the internet and that the theory is a “plausible argument.” Norris then adds that the Chinese may have received some secret deal in exchange for our trade deficit with them that allows the Chinese to drill for oil off of the Florida coast without our knowing it.
I’m not sure my summary could capture the full craziness of it, so David Kinkade at that great new blog, The Arkansas Project, has found a video of the exchange.
I hope stuff like this drives a stake through the vampire heart of Huck in ’12 talk.
Why would Huck suspect the market dive to be caused by economic terrorists rather than the more obvious popping of the housing bubble and a credit-quality panic among banks? Why is he asking Chuck Norris for his opinion? Why does Norris offer an additional conspiracy involving the Chinese and drilling off of the Florida coast? Why was this man ever considered a serious presidential candidate?
I have to add that it is especially scary when people who ought to be responsible start spinning conspiracy theories on TV. The popularity of conspiracy-obsessed web sites, like Daily Kos, and Andrew Sullivan’s promotion of conspiracies about Palin show that “elites” are increasingly comfortable with conspiratorial thinking.
Unfortunately, when elites peddle conspiracies, it lends credibility to all of the run-of-the-mill wacko-conspiracy theorists out there who feel legitimized. In just the last month I’ve had two people freely offer their conspiracy theories to me about the Trilateral Commission, the neo-cons, etc…
When will people learn that we have a hard enough time pulling off normal, openly-stated goals, like winning a war or regulating banks, to pull-off elaborate secret missions? Human beings can barely walk upright let alone control global events.
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Posted by Jay P. Greene
Please, Let It Not be Huckabee
September 15, 2008Mike Petrilli is thinking ahead over at Flypaper. He’s trying to figure out who the next secretary of education might be under a McCain or Obama administration.
He’s got some good guesses but I would only add — Please, let it not be Huckabee.
Take it from an Arkansan. Unless you like huge spending increases with little achievement improvement, hostility to vouchers and charters, consolidation of small school districts, and an odd interest in music education which he tried to promote in a conference call with country musicians who all learned music in church and not in school… Huckabee wouldn’t be your pick.
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