Huckonomics

I thought Mike Huckabee's advocacy of a big national sales tax, or a fair tax, as supporters called it would have doomed him by now. I saw how the flat tax killed Jerry Brown in 1992's presidential primaries and I thought that radical tax schemes were ripe for taking down a candidate. None of his opponents seem to have made too much of it so perhaps they can still use it to dismantle the Huckaboom. But I would think the regressive nature of sales taxes would be pretty ripe for the picking. A nice lefty critique can be found here. I'm sure the right is willing to weigh in, too. Oh, they have.