Gov. Mike Huckabee blamed America’s economic woes on a broken trade and import export policy that is only getting worse, starting with the new free trade bill that passed out of Congress last week.

The presidential hopeful is on the campaign trail again after taking a seven-year hiatus following his unsuccessful run in 2008. His short and succinct speech Saturday at the Western Conservative Summit outlined his policies and decried the recent Supreme Court ruling barring bans on gay marriage.

“I have no doubt that some people are going to make a lot of money, I’m just not sure they are Americans,” Huckabee said of a sweeping bill that gives the president authority to negotiate a trade agreement. “I am absolutely for free trade, but it’s not free trade if it isn’t fair trade and if we don’t enforce both sides of the trade deal that isn’t free trade.”

He said the country needs to control its own supply for food, military might and fuel to be truly free or else be held hostage by the foreigners who do control those things.

The former governor of Arkansas also laid out his plan to reform the tax plan, get rid of the IRS and move to a “fair tax.”

He said that instead of taxing income the nation should tax at the moment of consumption.

“It no longer punishes people for their productivity and rewards them for their irresponsibility,” Huckabee said. “I was raised with the idea that we ought to reward people who work, who save, who invest and who leave something behind for the next generation and yet our government, our current tax code punishes every one of those activities.”

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum mentioned a fair tax during his speech Friday night at the three-day event sponsored by the Lakewood-based Colorado Christian University. It’s the sixth annual “Rally on the Right” and arguably the biggest year.

In addition to Santorum and Huckabee, four other presidential hopefuls will address a crowd of about 4,000 people.

Huckabee said he plans to do things different than he did in 2008, namely he said he’s going to raise more money, something that hindered his primary campaign.