Oh, Mike Huckabee. Here we have a guitar-playin' Southern Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor who authored a diet how-to under the brilliant title Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork and -- after beating the pants off of Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses -- gave a victory speech shoulder-to-shoulder with "Walker, Texas Ranger." He's sure gotta be one of the more *interesting* presidential candidates to come down the pike in quite a while, no?

Well, I did some digging, and it turns out that Huckabee's economic vision for America is appropriately colorful. The Huck's plan consists almost exclusively of repealing the 16th Amendment ("The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on income") and imposing an across-the-board 30% national tax on everything we eat, drink, buy (new), or otherwise consume. Over on AlterNet, I've taken a crack at looking at how the Huck's "FairTax" might play in tomorrow's primary in the "Live Free or Die" state.