The real change candidate
Posted by Dalton48 on 08 Jan 2008 at 06:52 pm | Tagged as: Current Events
Obama’s sweeping platitudes leaving you cold? Feeling contrary? Want to render the United States entirely unrecognizable after just four years? Think Huckabee.
There’s the truly awe-inspiring plan to dismantle the entire existing tax regime and replace it with a black-market-inducing “Fair Tax”:
Supporters of the sales tax plan are particularly drawn to the feature that calls for repealing the 16th Amendment and abolishing the Internal Revenue Service. That fits with the insurgent, populist-tinged nature of Mr. Huckabee’s campaign.
And, just yesterday — as part of a multi-day 180 degree turnaround on illegal immigration – a vow to eliminate the automatic right to citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil that is enshrined in the constitution (Canada extends the same right to babies born here):
Mike Huckabee took the immigration debate to a new level yesterday by saying he would push for a constitutional amendment to end birthright citizenship, which is established by the 14th Amendment. While birthright citizenship has been questioned, no other candidate has advocated its elimination.
Why leave it at the 14th and 16th Amendments? Couldn’t you just scrap them all and start from scratch?
Talk about a revolution.
As a Paleo-libertarian-conservative, my vote (if I had one) would be the presidential hopeful with the first two names for attacking FDR for instituting the Federal Reserve Bank and outlawing private ownership of gold.
Nice post. On Huckabee and the FairTax (or “FairTax”), I think economist Brad DeLong put it rather nicely (and accurately):
All the other major GOP candidates (McCain, Romney and Giuliani) are on record as saying they believe that tax cuts generally — and the Bush tax cuts in particular — increase revenue. Not promote growth — a defensible and even orthodox position — but actually increase revenue.