Inherited Wealth Forbes Magazine: GOP: The Fight Is Not Over

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GOP: The Fight Is Not Over
Steve Forbes, 11.04.10, 11:24 AM EDT
http://www.forbes.com/2010/11/04/election-republicans-health-care-opinions-steve-forbes.html?partner=alerts

the subdued tone of his press conference and his words about cooperation, President Obama is not prepared to make any significant concessions on taxes and health care. The GOP had better prepare on how to fight. On taxes, Republicans must stand fast on keeping all of 2003 Bush tax cuts. The White House will try to present this as simply a payoff to the rich. Republicans must counter that it is all about capital creation and risk taking. On this the GOP should win--lots of Democrats are with them.

The big battles will revolve around health care. The new Congress must be ready to fight to peel away the bill's worst features. Among them:

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Steve Forbes
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Malcolm Stevenson (a.k.a. "Steve") Forbes, Jr. (born July 18, 1947) is an American editor, publisher, and businessman. He is the editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes as well as president and chief executive officer of its publisher, Forbes Inc. He was a Republican candidate in the U.S. Presidential primaries in 1996 and 2000. He is the son of longtime Forbes magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of that publication's founder, B.C. Forbes.

Personal life and education

Forbes was born in Morristown, New Jersey, the son of Roberta Remsen (née Laidlaw) and Malcolm Forbes.<2> He is of English, Scottish, French, and Dutch ancestry.<3> He is married to Sabina Beekman, and they have five daughters. Daughter Moira was named Publisher of ForbesLife Executive Women in 2007. Just as his children would do, Forbes attended Far Hills Country Day School. He graduated cum laude in 1966 from Brooks School in North Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the Princeton class of 1970.<4> 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.<5>

In 1996, years after the death of his father, he changed the name credited to him on the Forbes magazine masthead from Malcolm S. Forbes Jr. to the name he had been known as throughout childhood, Steve Forbes. Forbes served as an occasional guest host on the show History's Business on the television channel History.