Chris Slusser sets Marc Ambinder straight on Mike Huckabee

You can read Marc Ambinder's blog to understand this response:

Check your facts...the Supreme Court mandate required a large increase in the state's budget...which created a budget shortfall that they had to account for. That's what he was addressing in the video that was taken out of context. Doesn't it make you wonder why the entire video wasn't shown...but instead just an unflattering clip?

Huckabee cut taxes 94 times while governor of Arkansas. He cut capital gains taxes by 25%, eliminated the marriage penalty, doubled the child care tax credit, eliminated capital gains on the sale of a home, passed the FIRST broad based tax cut in the history of the state of Arkansas. He balanced the budget every year he was in office, cut income taxes and left the state with an $850mil surplus.

I'm okay with that record...and anyone who isn't is just plain kidding themselves. There's not another GOP candidate with anything close to Huckabee's resume on cutting taxes.

Chris Slusser