Huckabee Talks Jobs and Taxes
(CBS)
LANSING, MICH. -- Rough hands, scuffed boots, grime smudged clothes, ear plugs, eye masks, work jeans, backwards baseball caps and knit hats. These were the distinguishing characteristics of the crowd of over 300 workers who paused what they were doing to listen to Mike Huckabee stump in their manufacturing facility.
Mixing together patriotism and economic populism, Huckabee's message about Michigan as a former "arsenal of democracy" seemed to have contemporary significance at this plant, the headquarters of Demmer Corporation, which makes the parts used to armor military vehicles. Huckabee thanked the employees for their hard work, which he said helped save the lives of military soldiers everyday.
"As you work on this factory floor... the day we depend on some foreign government to produce our airplanes our tanks, our armored vehicles, our bullets, our bombs, that's the day were really not free. We are just as free as that country is willing for us to be. A lot of people talk about the loss of manufacturing jobs and some say those jobs are gone they're never coming back -- well they better come back. And here's why they better come back. Because the day we can't build our own weapons of self defense is the day that we aren't free anymore, we haven't just outsourced jobs...we have outsourced our freedom."
Huckabee also took the occasion to criticize the current tax system: "Tell me if that makes any sense: work real hard, government wants more. Don't work at all, government will give you a check. Is it any small wonder we've got some insanity in our tax laws?"
Shawn Ricks, a welder, has worked at this facility for nine months -- seven hours a week, twelve hours a day -- has never heard of the "Fair Tax" before but liked Huckabee's idea to abolish the income tax in favor of a national sales tax.
Ricks said he works a lot of overtime hours, but "Its a big issue when you work every day of the week, and you don't have anything to take home to your family," he said.
"The government gets a third of your pay, pretty much."
Best-selling author Mitch Albom on his first nonfiction work since "Tuesdays with Morrie."
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See all 21 Comments$75,000 = $19,500 yr = $375 wk
$50,000 = $13,000 yr = $250 wk
$25,000 = $6,500 yr = $125 wk
Yr Salary = Yr Tax = Wkly Tax
This is how much money you get to KEEP if you Vote for Huckabee!
Huckabee is the ONLY one who will implement the Fair Tax law to abolish income tax & change to sales tax when he becomes president.
Just think of how many things you can do with this extra money every week (after week, .....)!
You choose how to spend this extra money (charities, house payments, food, furniture, trips, activities, etc). Bottom line, you get to choose how to spend that money.
If you want to become poorer then vote for McCain, Romney, Thompson, Guiliani, Paul, Clinton, Obama, Edwards.
But if you want to become Richer then vote for Huckabee!
These are nothing but one-dimensional, out-of-context attacks. Yes, I said ATTACKS. An objective person would look at Huckabee''s entire record, not cherry-pick inconvenient parts of it and use them to make Huck look bad.
Here''s an example. The Club for Growth says Huckabee raised spending 50%. The number is actually 47%. That''s supposed to SHOCK us and make us horrified at how Huck is a tax-and-spender.
But that does not take into account population growth (15%) or income growth (50% per capita) during that time period.
Also, by comparison, spending in all the 50 states went up by 98% over the SAME 11-year period.
When you put the facts into context, you find the OPPOSITE of what the panicked anti-Huckabee forces want you to believe.
Do your own research, people! Don''t rely on the pundits. They don''t always have your best interests in mind, and many have lost touch with real people.
Most importantly, Huckabee backs the FairTax ( http://snipr.com/nextrung ). Romney''s recent WEAK response to FairTax on %u201CThis Week with Geo. Stephanopoulos ( http://snipurl.com/stephanopoulosdebate )%u201D drew a sharp contrast between Huckabee and other presidential front-runners who will not embrace it. Huck understands the Tax Code can''t be fixed with "a tap of the hammer, nor a twist of the screwdriver." Opponents clinging to the Code, and its power to grant tax favors at continued misery of working families, invigorates his campaign''s raison d''etre.
%u201CMain Street%u201D will have to demand ( http://snipr.com/scrapthecode ) their legislators deliver the bill to President Huckabee ( http://snipr.com/becomeamember ).
The fact is, Mike Huckabee is on the defense and wants to take the attention off of his liberal record as the governor of Arkansas.
FACT: During the 2001 regular session of the Arkansas Legislature, Mike Huckabee supported giving driver''s licenses to illegal aliens. (Source Arkansas Journal, Mike Huckabee Supported Bill to Give Driver''s Licenses to Illegal Aliens, Henry Rearden, 11/22/2007)
FACT: Mike Huckabee opposed a federal raid of 119 illegal immigrants at an Arkansas Tyson poultry plant, 107 of whom left the country either voluntarily or through deportation. (Melissa Nelson, "Huckabee Risks Political Fortunes To Denounce Immigration Raid," Associated Press, 8/5/05)
FACT: Mike Huckabee says he has degree in theology, further investigation discovers he does not. (Source: The Carpetbagger Report, Mike Huckabee has a theology degree -- or does he?, 12/14/2007)
Question:
Would you like to own a brand new high definition 60" LCD / Plasma TV with reclining chair with large cup holder for your cold beverage of your choice?
Answer:
Huckabee! He is the ONLY candidate out of the presidential field willing to implement the "Fair-Tax" system.
Look at your paycheck and see how much they are taking out of your paycheck for taxes... go ahead go look at it now.
Now take the cost of a brand new 60" LCD / Plasma high def TV and reclining chair (& cup holder) and divide that number by how much taxes they are taking out.
Example:
$3,000 (TV cost, chair) / $325 tax holding each week = 8 weeks
That''''s it, only 8 weeks to get this great deal!!!
But if you vote for any other candidate it will take years to save up for this! Say you put away $10 each week, well that''''s 4 years!
So if you want to become poorer then vote for McCain, Romney, Thompson, Guiliani, Paul, Clinton, Obama, Edwards..... but if you want to become richer vote for Huckabee!
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