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[[image:huckabee.jpg|200x200px200px|thumb|right|Mike Huckabee]]
Michael Huckabee was born on August 24, 1955, in Hope, Arkansas. He was the first male member of his family to earn a high school diploma, and enrolled at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he majored in religion and minored in speech. He won a special election for lieutenant governor in 1993, then became governor when Jim Guy Tucker was convicted in events relating to Whitewater. Huckabee was elected to full terms in 1998 and 2002. He ran for the Republican nomination for president in 2008 but lost to John McCain. In 2015, Huckabee announced that he will run for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. [http://www.biography.com/people/mike-huckabee-261446#pastor-and-politician(Bio)]
==Tax Reform==
Proposed a FairTax system {{:Mike Huckabee (MHWTRTax Reform)}} *abolish IRS ==Jobs and Business Policy=={{:Mike Huckabee (Jobs and tax codeBusiness Policy)}} *eliminate all income tax==Health Policy=={{:Mike Huckabee (Health Policy)}} ==Drug Policy=={{:Mike Huckabee (Drug Policy)}} ==Middle East=={{:Mike Huckabee (Middle East)}} ==Trade=={{:Mike Huckabee (Trade)}} ==Immigration=={{:Mike Huckabee (Immigration)}} ==Environmental=={{:Mike Huckabee (Environmental)}} ==Education=="When it comes to education, including payrollthe Obama Administration is lost at sea. We must shift power back to state and local governments. In my ten years as governor, Medicare, Social SecurityI fought for parents, students and investment income taxeslocal control.*establish national sales tax*“senior bonus payment” instead Washington bureaucrats and big-government central planners are out-of Social Security-control.*bonus payments to poor individualsEducation is a family function — not a federal function.*claim: Education decisions are best made by the FairTax system will ensure that everyone including criminals will be required to pay most local government — Moms and Dads.*I believe we must demand results, accountability and success for every child in every classroom. I oppose watering down our education standards or automatically promoting every student.*I also oppose Common Core and believe we should abolish the tax, since it is a sales tax instead federal department of education. We must kill Common Core and restore common sense. The rising cost of income taxcollege also threatens middle class families, reinvest $22 trillion parked offshore back to students and the United StatesAmerican dream. For too many, grow economy by 6% each year, create millions college is where students discover mountains of manufacturing debt — but not a lifelong career. We must tackle the establishment and reform our colleges and universities so they make sense for the jobsof tomorrow."[http://www.mikehuckabee.com/education (MHWE)]
==Energy==
"We should explore and exploit all forms of domestically produced energy — oil, gas, wind, solar, bio-fuels, hydro-electric, nuclear, coal — anything and everything."[http://www.mikehuckabee.com/energy]
*push for energy independence
*support Keystone Pipeline
==Spending and Debt==
Reject the failed Obama-Clinton policies that punish working families and encourage government dependency.
Secure the border & end illegal immigration.
Repeal & replace ObamaCare.[http://www.mikehuckabee.com/spending-debt(MHWSD)
==Gun Control==
 
Defend the 2nd Amendment
Protect the rights of gun owners from Big Government
Oppose new gun restrictions, registrations, regulations & mandates[http://www.mikehuckabee.com/2nd-amendment(MHWGC)]
==National SecurityVeterans==Rebuild America’s military superiority. The best way "My first act as President will be to avoid conflict is end the national disgrace of failing to build a lethal fighting force properly care for veterans who sacrificed so strong greatly for our country. America’s soldiers deserve first-class treatment and top-quality care — anything less is unfair, unacceptable, and simply un-American. As President, I will: 1) Fix the VA and give our heroes greater choices. We must hold VA hospital officials and powerful that no one would dare mess with usgovernment bureaucrats accountable.
Restore our role as leader of 2) Solve the Free World. Our enemies no longer fear us disability claims crisis and our allies no longer trust or respect usinexcusable wait times.
Reject Obama’s crisis-management approach to the world. We need 3) Empower our veterans with permanent careers, purpose, and a President who will accept responsibility and leadgrowing economy — not temporary programs or government gimmicks.
4) Fight for mental health awareness, treatment, and suicide prevention. Priorities matter — our nation must make sure the first fruits of our treasury go to those serving in uniform." [http://www.mikehuckabee.com/veterans (MHWV)] ==Agriculture== "As Presidentpresident, I will lead fight for America’s future and America’s farmers. I will: 1) Reject Obama’s radical, EPA mandates that strangle farmers with bureaucracy and Washington nonsense. 2)Fight for free and fair trade. Americans can compete with moral clarity anyone in a dangerous the world, but agriculture trade is often unfair and not free. 3)Support American corn producers and the renewable fuel standard. Moral clarity is Washington shouldn’t pick favorites or change the rules in the middle of the game. 4)Abolish the foundation to Death Tax and protect family farms. I governed a rural state for ten years and 25% of our economic economy was agriculture. I was also born and military strengthraised in rural America.As President, I will never forget my roots or my small town values."[http://www.mikehuckabee.com/national-securityagriculture (MHWA)] ==Health CareFamily Values== "We need to remember that there I will never apologize for my faith, my convictions or my values. Period. Life begins at conception. This isn’t just a Biblical view — it’s affirmed by modern science and every unique human DNA schedule, which is no controversy about the things that are driving medical costspresent at conception. As Governor, I promoted and signed a fetal protection act. The next president ought to declare I imposed a war ban on cancerpartial birth abortion, heart diseaseestablished waiting periods, diabetescreated parental notification requirements, and Alzheimer'spassed a bill so mothers who brought a newborn to a hospital or fire station would not be prosecuted for child abandonment. I may stand alone, but I am absolutely faithful to the issue of marriage. Not because it’s politically expedient, but because those are it’s the four things that are causing Biblical position, the greatest cost. I remember historical position and the polio vaccineright position. We saved billions of dollars since that timemust defend, because we haven't had to treat for polio. Why doesn't this country focus on cures rather than treatment? We change the economy protect and the countrypreserve traditional marriage." [http://www.cbsnewsmikehuckabee.com/news/transcript-top-tier-primetime-cnn-gop-republican-debatefamily-2015/values (MHWFV)==Entrepreneurship and Innovation== {{:Mike Huckabee (Entrepreneurship and Innovation)}} 
==Sources Key==
 
(MHWTR) = [http://www.mikehuckabee.com/_cache/files/11ce70c7-bee1-4fc0-b428-65ccdad4e7d1/B3BBF8906D52C920712799CAB662DB1F.fairtax-faq.pdf]
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