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The Ineffable Allen West: Democrats Try to Win Women's Votes by 'Talking From the Waist Down'

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The Ghost of a Flea1/27/2014 1:33:52 pm PST

This seems apt and on-topic:

The “War on Women” Is About Public Policy

The “war on women” that is alleged to exist is a war of public policy. Specifically one in which conservative ideas are unfavorable to women.

Take, for example, the Affordable Care Act. Compared to men, women earn lower incomes and have higher average health care expenses. The Affordable Care Act taxes high-earning people (mostly men) and subsidizes low-earning people (mostly women) while also specifically restricting the ability of insurance companies to charge higher premiums to women. On retirement security, Republican policy is tilted in favor of tax benefits for people with investment income (mostly men) while Democrats love Social Security which is especially beneficial to unusually long-lived people (mostly women). Democrats want to make it easier for women to win lawsuits about gender pay discrimination while Republicans want to make it harder for them to do so. Democrats want to invest in the future by hiring lots of preschool teachers (mostly women, and a big help to people with child care responsibilities—i.e. also mostly women) while Republicans want to invest in the future with reduced marginal tax rates for high income individuals (mostly men).