A touch of class.[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Bob Clegg, the 2nd District GOP congressional hopeful, apparently got pretty fired up while in the presence of Mike Huckabee  This article or section contains information about one or more candidates in an upcoming or ongoing election.Content may change as the election approaches. , the one-time presidential wannabe whose populist pop·u·list n. 1. A supporter of the rights and power of the people. 2. Populist A supporter of the Populist Party. adj. 1. pronouncements on the campaign trail added much-needed zest to the Republican primary race. At a June 14 Clegg rally in Bedford, Huckabee warmed up the crowd for Clegg, who was one of the first declared supporters in New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). of the former Arkansas Arkansas, river, United States Arkansas (ärkăn`zəs, är`kənsô'), river, c.1,450 mi (2,330 km) long, rising in the Rocky Mts., central Colo. governor s presidential bid. Then Clegg addressed the crowd, echoing one of Huckabee's proposals--a call to replace the income tax with a 23 percent national sales tax sales tax, levy on the sale of goods or services, generally calculated as a percentage of the selling price, and sometimes called a purchase tax. It is usually collected in the form of an extra charge by the retailer, who remits the tax to the government. . Never mind that more than a few economists have dismissed the proposal as, at the least, potentially far more unfair to people lower down the economic ladder. Clegg took the opposite tack--one that actually smelled of--could it be?--lass warfare. "If you can afford a Lamborghini," he told the crowd, "you can afford a 23 percent tax on it." Of course, if you can barely afford a Kia, can you afford the 23 percent tax on it? |
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