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Whatever happened to tax cuts? In the GOP, free markets are losing to Huckanomics.(Grand Old Party's Mike Huckabee)

Article from: Reason Article date: March 1, 2008 Author: Weigel, David

MIKE HUCKABEE WAS supposed to be dead right now, politically speaking, and the Club for Growth was supposed to be standing over the corpse holding the knife. The Club--an eight-year-old coalition of supply-siders that helped elect such anti-tax politicians as Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)--supports the GOP's anti-tax dogma. Huckabee, who repeatedly raised taxes while governor of Arkansas, does not.

Yet by the dawn of 2008, Huckabee was the driving force in the race for the Republican ...

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