let's go in focus to find out with steve forbes, elizabethed, carrie sheffield, john tammany, and bruce jabson. john, what do you think about this? the democrats using a plan by donald trump. >> it's a bad idea, and it's no surprise that domed trump would promote it. >> they debt capital for those that do things. we have apple, amazon, dell computer. it would be a brutally impoverished world without wall street. the idea that we penalize those that make a lot of money allocating capital is really hideous. >> bruce, particularly at this time when the markets are really kind of teetering, you really want to tax investors more right now as a stock market -- number two is it is a fairness issue because this is essentially -- it's complicated, but essentially they're taxing carried interests as a gain and they should be taxing these guys as income. it's a fairness issue. >> well, democrats want to double. democrats, by the way, do have a couple of plans, steve forbes, that they're going to implement when they get back from they are summer break. one of which would double the tax that these k

let's go in focus to find out with steve forbes, elizabethed, carrie sheffield, john tammany, and bruce jabson. john, what do you think about this?

. >> so according to steve, john tammany, the situation is pretty simple. they violated the rules they were supposed to operate by. >> even if they didn't violate the rules, they should defund it because government should have no opinion or another about abortion. planned parenthood wouldn't disappear if it were defunded. it would still be a vibrant private organization. that's the point. those who support planned parenthood should not want the federal government funding it simply because it discredits it in the eyes of voters. this should be private. >> i don't know whether it would survive if the federal government. federal government funding, by the way, $528 million last year. $540 million the year before. >> it would be an interesting test. let barbara boxer go out and fundraise for something she believes in. i think the majority of americans find and a growing majority find absolutely disgusting. to hillary clinton's point about war on women, i am assuming that half the aborted fetuses are probably baby girls. we know that the majority of fetuses abor

joining steve today is michael, elizabeth mcdonald, sabrina shafer, john tammany. here's what the donald says specifically about the flat tax. play the tape. >> the problem with a flat tax is it's sort of the same. i actually believe that people as they make more and more money can pay a higher percentage. >> what do you think is he going to do? >> dwoent know yet. he may be meeting with some of us to discuss ideas. we'll see what happens. i hope he goes for a pure flat tax. he is the master of the art of the deal. you go for purity, and then you negotiate when you get elect and have to deal with congress. at the beginning keep the old code, that's just going to be a breeding ground like a swamp for more complexity. we tried this in 1986 when we ended up with the beast we have today. go for simplicity. >> wouldn't simplicity be a good thing? >> if our tax code was simple and dealing with congress was simple, sure, that would be a great option. one thing he has proposed is increasing tariffs. he thinks increasing tariffs on imports into this country we will be able