Now, even people who stay in Arkansas, a lot of them feel like they have to move to Little Rock, or Northwest Arkansas or Jonesboro. As he did, after he got a law degree, but he always reminds people that he grew up on a family farm in Strawberry. And he yields to no man in confessing his love for the old-fashioned values that one learns on a family farm where work is plentiful and money scarce a full day's work for a full day's pay, a man's word is his bond, treat others as you'd like to be treated. Top that, Preacher. The problem with Huckabee's economic program, Bristow said, is that it emphasizes tourism and retirees.
Economic success means economic equity, too.
To Bristow, that requires repealing the state sales tax on groceries, a truly regressive tax. But he also knows that state and local governments cannot afford to lose the revenue that tax produces. The revenue will be replaced, he says. He just won't say how, knowing that any source he suggested could cost him votes. This is one of his least Lincolnesque moments.