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Taxes will go up and corporations taxes will stay low. gary cohen did events with ceo after ceo -- >> let's listen to it and then we'll talk about it. >> please. >> can i ask you all a quick question. if the tax reform bill goes through, do you plan to increase investment? your company's capitol investment? a show of hands if the tax reform goes through. >> why aren't the other hands up? >> explain that. >> i think the hands aren't up because there's no correlation between low taxes for corporations and their investments. corporate profit ability in the united states is among it's highest leve...

And they lose $2 billion. what is that, 1%? >> it's a 10th of 1%. >> and this is a crisis? >> well, that's an important point. but the point i want to make here for a second is your point, that these are still big complicated banks, hard for even somebody like jamie dimon to have his hand on everything that's going on there. but if you go to the next slide, you'll see your point illustrated in a different way. this is the profit ability of jp morgan. $19 billion of net profit in 2011. $5.4 billion in the first quarter alone of this year. so the way to think about this is their $2 billion is th...