Mike Huckabee Wants To Keep Funding The National Endowment For The Arts. Here Are 5 Reasons That’s Idiotic.

Former presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, has a bad habit of taking big-government positions that are antithetical to conservatism. The latest example is his support for the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

“To some, it may seem as though the $147.9 million allocated to the NEA in fiscal 2016 is money to be saved,” Huckabee wrote in a Washington Post column. “But to someone such as me — for whom an early interest in music and the arts became a lifeline to an education and academic success — this money is not expendable, extracurricular or extraneous. It is essential.”