Huckabee Speech

Wow. Can we squeeze a few more Biblical references in? The David allusion was nice, but he's over doing it a bit.

One of his applause lines was that he couldn't wait to nail a closed for business sign on the IRS. Do people really think that it would be possible to abolish the IRS? Really? I mean, that idea is so wildly insane it's sort of mindblowing.

Look, a hundred years ago the IRS didn't exist (the 16th Amendment was passed in 1913). But neither did the Department of Commerce (1913), Labor (1913), Health and Human Services (1979), Housing and Urban Development (1966), Transportation (1967), Energy (1979), Education (1979), Veterans Affairs (1989) or Homeland of Security (2003). Which of these does he intend to eliminate?

Do people really think that a national sales tax can make up all the revenue? That would be crazy. Massive and disproportionate affect on the poor. Huge tax breaks for the rich. Plus, you'd need a rate so high that it would wind up creating a large black market economy. For a primer from Brad deLong (Berkley Econ Prof. and incredibly smart and articulate guy) go here (you have to watch an ad but there's no login).

Wow, now they're interviewing him. "You know you're not going to win, why didn't you drop out?" Really? That's the question to him? It's like the media just can't conceive that some people like him. I'm certainly no supporter but can we have someone just report this straight up? Jeeze.