Steve Forbes
Steve Forbes
Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr.is an American publishing executive, who was twice a candidate for the nomination of the Republican Party for President. Forbes is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes, a business magazine. Forbes was a Republican candidate in the 1996 and 2000 Presidential primaries. Forbes is the son of longtime Forbes publisher Malcolm Forbes, and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C. Forbes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth18 July 1947
CountryUnited States of America
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It is very telling in the case of George Bush that he uses a front organization financed illegally by soft money and corporate money to do attack ads on me. If he has criticisms, he ought to be forward about it and do it himself,
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At least you'd have something going in there instead of being one of 12 faces on a stage and trying to figure out how to make yourself stand out. Even if you don't make it, you will have a following and will be seen as someone with a serious issue who did something serious for his state.
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As my father once said when he lost a governor's race in New Jersey: 'We were nosed out by a landslide,'
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The flat tax is a tax cut. Any way you slice it, your tax bill will be reduced under the plan... Under the flat tax, 65 million returns, or 42 percent of all returns, would owe no tax by the year 2010. That's right. We'll say it again: Millions of lower-income people will not have to pay any tax.
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The essence of the American dream is the understanding that we are here on this earth and in this land for a higher purpose: to discover-and develop to the fullest-our God-given potential. Anything that stands in the way of the dream, we must fight. Anything that enhances the dream, we must support.
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The independent analysis of the flat tax also predicts that the flat tax will lead to nearly 3.5 million new jobs by 2011 that otherwise would not exist.
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The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.
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We must guard against the overreaching hand of big government trying to take away our freedom. And we must always protect the environment in a manner consistent with our values
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The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
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There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.
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Our failure to properly deal with Germany and Japan early cost the world dearly later on. We dare not make the same mistake with China.
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Start by scrapping the tax code. Don't fiddle with it. Junk it. Throw it out. Bury it. Replace it with a pro-growth, pro-family tax cut that lowers tax rates to 17% across the board and expands exemptions for individuals and children so that a family of four would pay no taxes on the first $36,000 of income.
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Mr. Greenspan did a very good job in the early 1990's. But recently he's fallen prey to this crazy theory that prosperity causes inflation. So they're trying to slow the economy down by raising interest rates. It's like a doctor saying you're in great health, so we have to make you sick a little bit. It's a bizarre theory. It's going to hurt our economy.
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As more money flowed through Washington and as Washington's power to regulate our lives grew, opportunities and temptations for graft, influence peddling and cutting corners grew exponentially. Power breeds corruption.