LITTLE ROCK — The Washington anti-tax group Club for Growth, notably, has sought to portray Huckabee as "Tax Hike Mike" during his more than 10 years as governor.
To counter that image, Huckabee boasts of 90 tax cuts during his tenure, which ended in January.
Meanwhile, the average Arkansan's tax burden grew from $1,969 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 1997, to $2,902 in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2005, including local taxes.
Huckabee shepherded through the Legislature one of the largest tax cuts in Arkansas history - a 1997 income-tax reduction totaling about $90.6 million its first full year in effect. But most of the 89 other cuts Huckabee mentions are much smaller.
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