Ohio Senate candidate Moreno cites birthrate in favor of pro-family economics

Washington Examiner ^ | April 18, 2024 | Zachary Halaschak

[T Ruth]

EXCLUSIVE — Ohio Senate hopeful Bernie Moreno said he will push for pro-family economic policies should he make it to Capitol Hill, citing declining birthrates in the United States.

Moreno, a 57-year-old car dealership owner, is hoping to unseat incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in Ohio’s competitive Senate race. The race is listed by the Cook Political Report as a toss-up, meaning it is a crucial race for Republicans hoping to retake the Senate in November.

During an interview this week with the Washington Examiner, Moreno painted himself as a pro-family Republican eager to get to Washington, D.C., and push for economic policies that would help support families and reverse the declining birthrate. He also emphasized the need to keep the U.S. jobs market competitive on the global stage.

“We have to do anything that helps to improve our birthrate,” Moreno said. “We’re not even at replacement levels right now, and so we have to take a look at policies, tax policy specifically, that helps encourage people to have more kids.”

The U.S. total fertility rate was sitting at an average of 2.1 births per woman in 2007, but has fallen to 1.7 births per woman in 2021, according to the latest year of data. The replacement rate is 2.1.

When asked whether he would support a bigger child tax credit, Moreno said that he would “as long as it doesn’t become a welfare program.”

“The devil is in the details. Directionally, what I would say to you is: I’m going to support policies that advance American families so that we get to above replacement levels,” he said.

[ZULU]

He is a good man. Pro-Trump and conservative.

[spacejunkie2001]

amen and amen. the R party REALLY needs to focus on solving any issue that pro baby killers site or that people use as excuses to kill.

There should be a major move to streamline adoption and make it way less expensive and burdensome. Take care of women and their issues to alleviate some of the fear of having a child. Streamline foster care. Just to name a few

[nitzy]

This is very easy.

End the fed - This will cure inflation so that both parents aren’t required to work to support children.

Crack down on website allowing minors to access porn. Porn addiction and the resulting social decay is destroying young men and women’s sex lives. It is delaying or preventing young people from entering into relationships with one another.

End the housing crisis by kicking the invaders out, freeing up scarce housing resources. Nothing incents a family to have kids like a backyard with no kids running around in it yet.

But of course, these things are already known by everyone in power. They don’t want you to be free or happy or prosperous. If you were, you wouldn’t need them.