Economists have expressed skepticism at Mr. Bush’s promise of 4 percent growth, so Mr. Huckabee’s 6 percent plan may cause even more raised eyebrows.

Mr. Huckabee said his Fair Tax would encourage businesses to repatriate $11 trillion that they had parked overseas and ignite a national manufacturing boom. “Folks, it’s not enough for us to have an idea and design and create something,” he said. “We have to make the things that we create.”

yet again untaxing millionaires will cure the common cold, lumbago, and female troubles