• Mike Huckabee former Republican Governor of Arkansas
stands for elimination of federal income and payroll taxes.

• Mike Huckabee claims that he steered Arkansas from a
$200 million deficit to an $850 million surplus.

• He likened Obama's Health Care Bill to that of a poll
tax or in other words just a redistribution of wealth. He in fact
advocates the policy of Preventive health.

• If elected President Mike Huckabee has said that he
would not support the raising of income taxes at the Federal
Level.

• He has a history of cutting around 90 taxes while he was
Governor and also supports abolition of death tax. He supports
fair Tax a 23% tax on consumption.

• He believed in voluntary personal accounts that pay a
higher rate of return for youngsters. This will help supplement
their social security benefits.

• He believes in using alternative or renewable energy
like bio diesel and cut costs on oil and petroleum. He advocates
setting aside an Research and Development budget that will also
be done by the private sector to develop new forms of energy.

• He also supports amniotic fluid and umbilical cord stem
cell research and stresses on the need for scientists to convince
politician to divert funds to this area.

• He supports the amendment to the Homeland Security Bill
which sets aside $3 billion for this purpose. These funds are
intended for training and deployment of 23000 more law
enforcement personnel, erect 105 radar and camera towers and
build 700 miles of fence.

• He advocates increased spending for defense purposes.

• Huckabee would maintain long-term solvency of Social
Security and Medicare. 

• He wants to maintain federal funding of Social Services
Block Grants.		

• As the country squirms through recession, President
Obama's budget plans to reduce the decades of economic inequality
that prevails in the United States. By bringing in a progressive
tax code which would involve raising the tax rates for the high
income category proportionately and increasing the tax cuts and
credits of the middle and low income stratum.

• An overhaul of Health care thereby bringing down private
health costs is in the agenda. He signed the American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act aimed at creating 3.5 million new jobs,
making important infrastructural investments and giving tax
reliefs to 95% of working class Americans. 

• The President aims for a long term plan for the country
concerning clean and renewable energy. By developing alternative
sources of power like solar, bio fuels, thermal power etc he
plans to lessen imports of foreign oil thus reducing existing
deficits.

• By focusing on energy efficiency and conservation, and
curbing emissions the country would curb deadly pollution thereby
playing an active role in climate change issues.

• Obama recognizes the role of children and youth in
shaping the quality of America's future demography and thereby
supports reforms like 'No Child Left Behind' and improving
education in general right from the kindergarten level, giving
essential training and skills to teachers and rewarding them for
their good work etc.

• He aims to make college education accessible to all who
are competent by expanding Pell Grants and initiating new tax
credits. 

• Obama chooses to cut down on war costs in Iraq and
Afghanistan and proposes to keep aside $250 billion to bail out
the US financial industry besides the $700 billion already set
aside.

• Before his election, Obama said that he would require
disclosure of all congressional pet projects and force lawmakers
pay for any new spending or tax breaks through new revenue and
cuts in other programs.