Steve Forbes

Steve Forbes (2013)

Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. (born July 18, 1947 in Morristown , New Jersey ) is an American businessman and publisher. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine ; He is CEO and President of Forbes Inc. , which publishes the magazine .

Life

In 1996 and 2000, Forbes, who is a son of Malcolm Forbes , applied for the Republican nomination for the election of US president , but failed early in the primary elections. In the 2008 presidential primaries in the United States , Forbes supported the candidate Rudolph Giuliani , who also left early.

Forbes is an advocate of the free market economy and is particularly in favor of a tax reform that calls for the replacement of the progressive income tax with a flat tax . The Flat Tax project even became his main topic during his candidacy in 1996 and 2000. Otherwise Forbes represents classic republican values: for the free possession of weapons, against "gay marriage", against abortion, for education vouchers , for high cuts in government spending, for federalism , for the death penalty , for free trade , for the privatization of social security , against a great influence of the UN on US politics and against a signing of the Kyoto Protocol , as Forbes does not believe that humans influence the climate and considers the protocol to be anti - business.

For a long time, the Forbes family owned the largest collection of Fabergé eggs , which the Russian oligarch Viktor Felixowitsch Wekselberg acquired in February 2004 .

Web links

• Steve Forbes in the nndb (English)

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