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
Cutting rates works. It means more businesses and more jobs are created and the economy moves ahead.
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.
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.
The most laughable White House criticism is that tax cuts are a 'free lunch.' The American people's work created that money. Only in Washington could there be a belief that letting people keep more of what they create is a giveaway.
The politicians say 'we' can't afford a tax cut. Maybe we can't afford the politicians.
Is he afraid that the American people will find out what he really stands for, or that he has no vision at all?
Especially after what we've had in Washington for seven years, I think people want to get to know their candidates, ... They don't want surprises after the election.
So on the budget, we should get real. We should not act like cowardly lions. We should get our courage back again.
Consider this, for starters. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, which has defined the character of the nation, is all of 268 words. The Declaration of Independence runs about 1,300 words. The Constitution, which has served us for more than two centuries, comes to some 5,000 words. The Holy Bible has 773,000 words. The federal income tax code and all of its attendant rules and regulations: 9 million words and rising.
Don't phase in the cuts over five years, ... Help people now.
You go wherever there are groups of activists willing to work. I have visited this state several times this year.
You get huge changes in the last seven to 10 days as people really focus. I come from the business sector, where competition is a daily fact of life.
I think the idea of trying to demonize Governor Romney's going to backfire. Their attempts so far have failed pretty outstandingly and I think at the end of the day, people are going to say, 'what was Obama's record?' Governor Romney's got pro-growth Reaganesque proposals on the table.
The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.