Steve Forbes

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Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive.

Forbes was a candidate in the 1996 and 2000 Republican Presidential primaries.

Forbes is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine.

Forbes is the son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes, and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C.

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He is an adviser at the Forbes School of Business & Technology.

Early life

Forbes was born in Morristown, New Jersey, to Roberta Remsen (née Laidlaw) and Malcolm Forbes. Forbes grew up in Far Hills, New Jersey.

Education

Forbes attended the Far Hills Country Day School with his longtime friend and future Governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman. He graduated cum laude from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, in 1966. He then graduated with an A.B. in history from Princeton University in 1970 after completing a 75-page long senior thesis titled "Contest for the 1892 Democratic Presidential Nomination." While at Princeton, Forbes founded his first magazine, Business Today, with two other students. Business Today is currently the largest student-run magazine in the world. Forbes is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi and Tau Kappa Epsilon. He holds honorary degrees from several universities, including New York Institute of Technology and Lehigh University.

Personal life

In 1971, he married Sabina Beekman. They have five daughters, including Moira Forbes. Forbes appeared alongside his family on Larry King Live during his 1996 presidential campaign. Forbes has been a resident of Bedminster, New Jersey.

Forbes rides Amtrak trains and was a passenger on board the 2016 Chester, Pennsylvania, train derailment.

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Political career and views

President Ronald Reagan appointed Forbes as the head of the International Broadcasting Corporation (BIB), which financed the operation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. George H.W. Bush, Reagan's replacement, has been reappointed by Forbes to the role. Following Bill Clinton's inauguration, Forbes will continue to serve as the BIB's chief until 1993.

Forbes went on to become active in various conservative political advocacy organizations following his time as the BIB's CEO. Forbes served as the chairman of "Empower America"'s Board of Directors from 1993 to 1996, which later merged with the advocacy group FreedomWorks. Forbes became a member of influential conservative politician Jack Kemp, who would go on to endorse Forbes in the 1996 Republican presidential primaries, thanks to "Empower America." Forbes served as honorary chairman of the advocacy group "Americans for Hope, Growth, and Opportunity," which was described as "a grassroots, issues-advocacy group established to advance pro-growth, pro-freedom, and pro-family issues" from 1996 to 1999.

Over three years, Forbes aided Christine Todd Whitman's proposal for a 30 percent cut in New Jersey's income tax, and this proved to be a major factor in her victory over incumbent Governor James Florio. Despite Forbes and Whitman's childhood friends, Forbes would later distance himself from Whitman in his Republican nomination bid in 2000 due to Whitman's pro-choice position on abortion.

Forbes entered the Republican primaries in 1996 and 2000, primarily seeking a flat income tax (Forbes' emphasis on the flat tax plan was so strong that he was referred to as a "single-issue candidate," a term he later described as "single-issue candidate). Forbes felt that the American taxation system had become too Byzantine and bureaucratic, and that it was in dire need of reform and simplification. Forbes also supported the idea of reintroducing 4.5 percent mortgages and term limits in 1996, but in 2000, he scrapped both as minor planks in his overall campaign.

When Forbes ran for president in 1996 and 2000, he sold a portion of his Forbes, Inc. voting stock to other family members to help finance his campaign. Despite winning the Arizona and Delaware primaries in 1996 and receiving a large portion of the vote in other primaries, Forbes did not come close to winning the Republican nomination. Forbes' "awkward" campaigning style was thought to have been a major factor in his demise. Time Magazine called his standoff a "comedy-club preview of what might happen if some ardent scientist wanted to build a dork robot." Jeff Lyon of The Chicago Tribune wrote about Forbes on the campaign trail, "Forbes] reminds him of the classic milquetoast, with a sharp smile, gold-rimmed glasses that make his eyes appear smaller, and a formal way of presenting himself when he works a crowd. He has a cornball style and uses preppie slang words such as "get real" and "el zippo" (meaning zero) in speeches. Forbes and his campaign workers were known to travel between campaign stops by "the big silver bus." He raised $86 million in campaign funds for his 2000 presidential campaign, the majority of which was self-donated.

Forbes returned to head the magazine and company after being dropped out early in the 2000 primary season. During the 1996 campaign, insiders at Fortune claimed that Forbes' advertisers' stories became heavily biased in favor of them.

Forbes has endorsed free trade, health savings accounts, and encouraging individuals to opt out 75% of Social Security payroll taxes into personal retirement accounts, among other topics (PRAs). According to Forbes, traditional Republican Party policies such as downsizing government departments, tougher gun control, protection for the death penalty, and school vouchers are among the many Republican Party proposals. Despite his father's homosexuality, Forbes opposes gun control and the majority of government control of the climate, as well as opioid regulation and same-sex marriage. He called for a "US not UN foreign policy" in terms of foreign policy (which is a blend of anti-World Monetary Fund sentiments, pro-Israeli sentiment, resistance to Most Favored Country recognition for the People's Republic of China, and anti-UN sentiment).

Forbes' flat-tax structure has been updated marginally. Forbes introduced a flat rate of 17% on all personal and corporate earned income (unearned income such as capital gains, pensions, inheritance, and savings are exempted). However, Forbes recommends that the first $33,000 of income tax exemption be retained. Forbes maintained the same model in 2000; however, instead of each individual receiving a $33,000 waiver, it more closely mimics the Armey Plan (Forbes' version called for a $13,000-per-adult and $5,000-per-dependent deduction). Forbes is extremely wealthy, with a net worth of $430 million in 1996. In reaction to this skepticism, Forbes pledged to exempt yourself from the benefits of the flat tax in 2000, but in a debate with Alan Keyes the previous year, he supported the repeal of the 16th Amendment.

Forbes proclaimed his support for social security in his 2000 campaign, as well as his supply-side economics. Despite being in opposition to abortion for the 2000 race, Forbes declared that he was adamantly opposed to abortion and advocated prayer in public schools. Forbes had released a statement this year that he would no longer contribute to Princeton University because of philosopher Peter Singer's selection of personhood as being restricted to "sentient" beings, and therefore rejects all infants and all infants from receiving this status. On June 3, 1997, Steve Forbes was one of the signers of the Statement of Principles of Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

In 1996, Forbes campaigned on behalf of Ron Paul in Texas's 14th congressional district.

On Saturday Night Live, an entertainment program known for including political satire, actor Mark McKinney appeared as Steve Forbes. McKinney appeared in an episode on March 16, 1996—shortly after Forbes dropped out of the 1996 presidential race—McKinney appeared in Forbes' "Forbes America," in which Forbes bought land in Russia to find his own country. On April 13, 1996, Forbes hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live. Forbes' goal was to answer potential voters' questions, but the actor's subsequent questions had to do with his tremendous personal wealth, but instead, "Why don't you buy Bosnia and tell all those people over there that if they don't keep fighting you'll just throw them the hell out?" Forbes starred in a skit, playing a roofer, on the same episode, a person whose identity is in conflict with Forbes' nerdy, intellectual demeanor, and appearance. The episode also included a skit in which the true Forbes interviewed his SNL counterpart, played by McKinney.

Forbes joined the Board of Directors of the advocacy group FreedomWorks in December 2006. Forbes is also on the board of directors of the National Taxpayers Union. Forbes is also a member of the board of trustees of The Heritage Foundation, a leading Washington, D.C.-based public policy research center. Forbes is a regular panelist on Forbes on Fox, which also features members of Forbes magazine staff and is seen on Fox News Channel at 11:00 a.m. EST on Saturday mornings.

Forbes joined Rudy Giuliani's campaign for the 2008 presidential election on March 28, 2007, as a National Co-Chair and Senior Policy Advisor. During McCain's bid for the 2008 presidential race, Forbes served as John McCain's economic advisor on taxes, electricity, and the budget during his campaign for the 2008 presidential election.

"Does America Need A Strong Dollar Policy?" Forbes hosted James Grant, Frederic Mishkin, and John R. Taylor Jr. on a NPR broadcast Intelligence Squared debate in March 2013. ""

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