Huckabee Polls Within 7 Points of Obama??

I agree that Huckabee was the only Repub candidate who actually seemed as if you'd like him if he were your neighbor in the last election. This was one of Obama's strengths too. Huck would represent the destruction of the Repub coalition as Nixon and Reagan knew it. The winners of their internal warfare would be the Religious Right. Which is fair in a way because they have been the foot soldiers and voting mass of Repub victories for the past few decades. This outcome would also make the Repubs a 'rump'--restricted to the South and a few Mid Western states. John McC

I recently attended a lecture series where I heard Huck live for the first time. He was very impressive for all the reasons you state. At the end of the evening, I thought I could be quite comfortable with this man in the Whitehouse. He is promoting an idea I have wanted for some time...abolishing the IRS and the mountains of tax code. Our country, both businesses and individuals, spends $600 billion per year doing taxes and trying to comply with the tax code. For what? Huck supports an economist who figured out a national consumption tax (sales tax) could replace the entire system. Almost all states already have the infrastructure in place to collect the tax. Europe and Canada already collect a federal sales tax. Consumption taxes tax everyone, including those that operate quite well in the underground and black economies of drugs, prostitution, extortion, and theft. Of course, this would do away with corporate taxes...but who are we kidding? Business taxes become part of the cost for their goods and services... WE pay their taxes in higher prices. And why shouldn't pimps and pushers pay taxes?