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Huckabee on Tax Policy at the New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog

By Andis Kaulins

At the New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog Deirdre Wheatley-Liss of Fein Such Kahn & Shepard relates A conversation with Mike Huckabee [former governor of Arkansas] on Tax Policy where she asked Huckabee the following question:

"Governor Huckabee, here in New Jersey we are in the most expensive state to live in and the most expensive state to do business in from a tax perspective. How is it that the government's share in our work could be productive to our businesses instead of having a dampening effect?"

Wheatley-Liss summarizes Huckabee's reply:

* Corporate Tax does not exist [because] "Taxes are a cost of doing business that is passed along to the ultimate consumers of good and services - you and me."

* A FAIR tax would jumpstart the economy.... Gov. Huckabee explained it as a tax on consumption....

* Eliminate tax penalties for bringing offshore dollars into the US as an immediate solution to our fiscal crisis....

Read it all.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 02, 2010 (boomark / email).