there. david: it s all taxes. taxes. i m not these are for examples. for examples, the capital gains tax could be changed, could be reduced from 23.8% which is very, very high. there s a lot of things that can be done to simplify the tax code, to help middle class folks in small businesses, to lower rates, to create incentives. david: so tax cuts 2.0, is that a campaign strategy headed into 2020. the head of forbes media, steve forbes. and co-chair, and jessica tarhov. taxes a strategy? the tax code, much too high and even in blue states they d love the idea of reducing tax rates and stimulate the economy. good tax cuts are good. the idea that you can overstimulate with good tax cuts is preposterous.
the tariffs. david: but he supports on china, and doesn t he support the policy? no, you can accomplish with the policy routes. things that democrats would do to challenge china that wouldn t end up with 25, 30, whatever his latest tweet says taxes, tariffs taxes on goods. david: jessica mentioned bell maher who says he wants a recession to get rid of trump, that s what his goal is. do you think that the media, at least people like maher and other democrats are everplaying their hand in talking about recession, particularly if it doesn t happen? yeah, absolutely. no, i don t think that everyone is out there talking like bill maher, for people who are, it s sick to wish that on the people of this country. it s sad to see that people s hate for this president overcomes common sense. as he tried to squeeze in in the last segment, and obama said to
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on people, you not only keep more, but you earn more. david: all right. let me switch gears a little bit for you, jessica, on the recession talk because there s been a lot of recession talk, not just by democrats, but in the media itself, also by people on wall street that are concerned about. you saw the market drop yesterday. right. david: most of that was china concerns, but a lot of it was this underlying concern about how that might affect the overall economy. how is that going to be played out on the campaign trail by democrats? i think it s going to be played out. no one wants a recession. this isn t a bunch of candidates running around talking what the president did yesterday on his twitter account, basically, moving us closer and closer to recession via tweet, frankly undoing the progress. david: even though schumer supports on taxes. he supports with china, but doesn t support a trade war and
if your pay goes up, david, or somebody s pay goes up, i don t think they re sweating at night because their income is improving. go for what s good. by golly, why doesn t he propose a flat tax and throw the whole thing out, everyone would cheer. david: jessica, if you ask the vote, do you want to pay more or less in taxes? how do you think they re going to answer. they ll obviously say they want to pay less for taxes. david: there you go. it s a good idea. i think that middle class and lower class tax cuts are a good idea. all the candidates on the democrat side have those to benefit the issue. david: how are they going to pay for it? we are going to submit to congress, infrastructure. david: because there s not enough money in the united states to pay for everything they re proposing. the people on the republican side, the tax cuts benefitted people they were not supposed to benefit or purported to benefit. corporate payouts.