By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View Proposals to have the federal government help new parents take paid leave from their employment have generally come with serious disadvantages. If the government makes companies eat the cost, it might also make them less willing to promote or hire women of child-bearing age. If the government instead makes taxpayers […]
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Republicans need a better tax plan for 2017
By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View It is not 1981 anymore. That is the message of an editorial in the conservative Weekly Standard, which warns Republicans not to design a tax reform patterned on the one that Ronald Reagan signed in his first year as president. Mimicking the Reagan tax cuts is a temptation both because […]
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Obama’s cultural liberalism sank Democrats
By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View Under Bill Clinton’s leadership in the 1990s, the Democratic Party tried to appeal to culturally conservative white working-class voters without abandoning its liberal convictions. During the middle of the George W. Bush administration, Democrats revived that approach, running candidates opposed to abortion and gun control in some rural districts. But […]
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What Trump must do to beat Clinton
By Ramesh Ponnuru Bloomberg View In the last four presidential elections, the Republican nominee has never won less than 90 percent of the Republican vote. Republicans won the popular vote only one of those times, in 2004, and when they did they carried 93 percent of Republican voters. Donald Trump has defied the odds before, […]
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N. Willard: Fixing Social Security
Ramesh Ponnuru’s column, “Democrats offer a delusional SS plan” (Sun Journal, April 11), sounds like a convoluted, unsubstantiated and obvious attempt to privatize Social Security. Republicans tried that during the time when George W. Bush was president. Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced Social Security during the Great Depression. He recognized the deplorable living conditions that many […]