Huck vs (Bill) Clinton

An editorial in the Arkansas Leader lists the increase in taxes by Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas and compared those to Huck's tax increases. They then discuss why Huck should not get quite that much credit for the tax breaks.

So which raised taxes more? It is hard to quantify. If you measured the increases in the revenue stream, the Huckabee tax cuts far exceeded Clinton’s but that would be unfair because the economy had grown and the same penny of tax would produce far more under Huckabee.

But if you look at the major taxes, I see the aggregate Huckabee taxes as greater, especially if you deduct the 4 cent gasoline and diesel taxes that Clinton vetoed in 1985 and that the legislature enacted over his veto.

The striking thing is not whether or not he raised taxes MORE than Bill Clinton--it is that it is a legitimate question at all. A Republican should not be competing with any Democrat for who can tax more. How can we trust a politician who was so fond of taxes to keep a promise of "no new taxes"?