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Think IRAs: One solution to three problems.(Social Security reform)

National Review

| December 09, 2002 | PONNURU, RAMESH | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

How well did Republicans do in the 2002 elections? So well that the best spin the Democrats have been able to put on the results is that Republicans will now have to shoulder all the burden of governing. Presumably this burden would have been even heavier, and Republicans would have had even more to worry them, if they had taken all 435 seats in the House of Representatives.

That's not to deny that governing will present difficult choices. Three issues, in particular, have the potential to vex Republicans: Social Security, health care, and tax reform. But their new majority gives them an opportunity to advance their objectives in all three areas.

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