[change of program] come on up. Good afternoon everyone. We are going to open those doors up so, hopefully people out there can hear what is going to happen. Welcome, everyone to this first in the 2020 gateway to the election president ial campaign series. Presented through a Collaborative Partnership between the Greater Nashua Chamber of commerce, riviera universities residence circle and the telegraph. I am traci hall, president and ceo of the Greater Nashua Chamber of commerce. It is a pleasure to welcome all of ours in his, civic and Community Members to todays event. We appreciate your support and applaud you for educating ourselves about the important choices we will all make on for your 11th. February 11th. Our goal is to bring president ial candidates to nashua, to get a better sense of their stance on Business Community topics, and to prepare you to cast your most informed vote on primary day. As we begin our program, i would like to ask that you check that are in silentes mode so they do not go off. Peopleto recognize a few , former elected officials who are with us. ,he former nashua mayor donnelly know so, thank you for joining us. Someone, state representative and newly elected member of the board of alderman skip cleaver is here. [applause] those are the only you, brandon, are alderman. [applause] thank you. I would also like to think our corporate sponsor, fidelity investments. Fidelity is a strong and active member of our chamber and of the greater nashua community, providing funding and feet on the street to help dozens of agencies across the region each year. Our city is fortunate to have institutions of equality and history of our gateway to the election partners. Riviera university has seen great growth under the exam three leadership of sister paula marie bewley, and is blessed with dedicated men and women who share their time and talents through the presence circle talent counsel. The president s circle counsel. The telegraph helps ensure our citizenry is engaged and educated through their coverage of the greater nashua region. Want to thank the publisher of the telegraph and the telegraph editor for what they have done to put the series together. We are grateful to jennifer mccormick, director of the nashua public library, my favorite place in the city, for hosting us here at the library. Im sorry we cannot sneak a few more people in here without venturing the wrath of the fire marshall. A few words on the format. Following mr. Youngs remarks i will present a series of following mr. Yangs remarks, i will present a series of questions and then take questions from the audience. We look for to an informative conversation today and to your courtesy and respect as we go through the program. A brief introduction. Andrew yang is an american entrepreneur, philanthropist, author and lawyer. He is the founder of venture for america, and Nonprofit Organization that focuses on crating jobs and struggle in struggling american cities. In 2012, the Obama Administration selected him as a champion of change. In 2015, as a president ial ambassador for global entrepreneurship. In late 2017, start yang announced his run for the presidency under the slogan, make america think harder math, which i loved. Along with his proposal of universal basic income, a supplement to income offer to american adults, to prepare them for the economic challenges incurred by Artificial Intelligence and automation in the job market. Graduate ofa 1996 brown university, where he earned a degree and click a science. In 1999 graduate of club at University School of law. He and his wife evelyn have two sons and live in new york city. I would like to invite mr. Yang to the podium to learn more about what he has for us. [applause] thank you, New Hampshire yes, voice application. Amplification. I graduated thing, from Phillips Exeter academy in 1992. [applause] i was invited to speak back at pea a few months ago and i said this is my first time back since i graduated because i do not enjoy myself here. And the student body erected in applause. [laughter] i felt really bad. That was not the reaction i was going for. Graduated from exeter, i went to brown and then columbia. That became an unhappy lawyer in your city for five months. In new york city five months. I left the firm to try to start a business. How many of you have started a business or organization or club . Youou have your hand up, know two things. Number one, it is harder than anyone lets on. Number two, when someone ask you how it is going . What you say . Great. Everything is always going great . My business went great until it felt. Failed. Ts until it my parents told people i was still a lawyer because was easier. Andrked at one organization then the other and became the head of an Education Company that was bought by another bigger company. 2009 was a decade ago and i cannot believe its been 10 years. That was a tough time in much of the country. How many of you are here in New Hampshire 10 years ago . And how was that time in 2009 in nashua . Your laughing. Were you the mayor then . You are laughing. Want to commend elected officials and former elected officials. Because here New Hampshire, it is a labor of love. Youre certainly not doing it for the glory. I tell people to run for local office, i believe is harder than running for president , because people know where you live. [laughter] so, the financial crisis 10 years ago wracked many of our communities. I thought i had some insight as to why the economy had collapsed. It was because so many of the want to be with kids who are gone to exeter and brown gone to wall street and created derivatives and mortgagebacked securities and these exotic financial instruments. I thought that is a disaster, a train wreck, if that is where our energies are going. So i imagined what i would want our energies go toward instead. The vision i came up with was to head to a city like detroit or cleveland or birmingham or providence, and help grow a company to create jobs. So i started a nonprofit called venture for america. I started calling wealthy friends asking them this question. Do love america . The smart among them said, what does it mean if i say yes, andrew . And i said, at least 10,000. Thousands of dollars agreed to the millions and crated jobs in many cities. I was honored by the ministration multiple times and got to meet my wife to be the president. So my inlaws were excited about me that week. I started having the sinking feeling that for any job my organization was helping create, many communities were losing dozens or hundreds of jobs. I started to feel like might work was pouring water into a bathtub that had a giant hole ripped in the bottom. I was still surprised when donald trump became our president twice 16. How does yellow dust president in 2016 i was still surprised when donald trump became our president in 2016. How did you all react when he won . Tears, devastated, disbelief. That it was the red flag americans decided to take a bet on the narcissist reality tv star. Even if you are devastated or cried, we all have family or friends or neighbors who are about his victory. I started to dig into why i thought he won. If you turn on cable news today, why would you think donald trump is our president . Facebook. Racism. Russia. Hillary clinton perhaps. Emails. Someone shouted out, the economy. Mr. Yang that is closer to the truth. When i dug into the numbers, we have automated way 4 million jobs. Where were those jobs . Ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, iowa. All of the swing states that donald trump needed to win and did win. If you go through the voter district data, you see there is a Straight Line up between the adoption of Industrial Automation and voting district and a Movement Toward trump. This happened in New Hampshire, but havent earlier. Your lost over 12,000 many factoring jobs in the northern part of the state. When you go to those towns, you see that many of those towns have never recovered. After the factory or the plant closed, and the shopping district closed, and the publishing shrank. In was in destroyed detroit, cleveland and st. Louis, he saw a lot of the same things. We are in the midst of the greatest Economic Transformation in the history of our country. Because what happened to the manufacturing jobs is not stopping there. It is now heading to retail, call centers, fast food, truck driving, and on and on through the economy. How many of you have noticed Stores Closing here in New Hampshire . Why are the Stores Closing . Amazon, thats right, one word answer. Amazon is soaking up 20 billion in business every year. And how much is amazon paying in taxes . Thats right, 20 lane dollars out and zero back. The most common job in the economy is retail clerk. The average retail clerk is that 20 or old woman making between nine dollars and 10 per hour. How many of you have seen a selfserve kiosk in a fast b restaurant, like mcdonalds . Every location in the country, starting with the front of the house and there want to move to the back of the house. When you call the Customer Service line of a big company and get a bot or software, im sure you do what i do which is two pounds 0, 0 and say human, human until you get a person on the line . The software is tell her bro. Desa software is terrible. But in two or three years, the software is going to sound like this, hello andrew, what can i do for you . What is going what is that going to do for the two minor 3 Million People working a call centers now . How many of you know truck driver here New Hampshire . It is the most common job in 29 states. My friends in california are working on trucks that can drive themselves. They say they are 98 of the way there. A selfdriving truck just took 20 tons of butter from california to pennsylvania two weeks ago, totally autonomous. Why butter . I have no idea. But you can look that up and say robot, butter, truck, and it will pop up. What does this mean for the three and half million americans who drive a truck for living are the 7 million americans who work in truck stops, motels and diners that rely on truckers getting out and having a meal every day . Despair. These are the forces tearing our country apart. Many americans feel himself getting left behind and pushed to the sideline. Corporate profits are record highs today and record highs the United States america. Stress, financial insecurity. Have any of your College Students . Student loan debt at record highs, not normal. Even suicides and drug overdoses. And importantly, New Hampshires one of the epicenters of the opioid academic Opioid Epidemic in the country. Eight americans are dying every hour in this country now. These are things people are sprinting on the ground and it is only going to accelerate as our official intelligence the lap and starts hitting the economy in earnest. This is not just a bluecollar problem. Artificial intelligence will be able to do the work of bookkeepers, accountants, radiologists, even attorneys. Right now software can edit a contract more quickly and errorfree and certainly and expensively, than the most experienced human lawyer. We are in the midst of this Economic Transformation. And for whatever reason, we are scapegoating immigrants, for things that immigrants have next to nothing to do with. My first move was still not to run for president. Because im not a crazy person. I want to washington, d. C. , and sat down with our leaders and said what are we going to do to help our people manage this transition . And what you thing to folks d. C. Said to me when i said what are we going to do . We dont know. Nothing. The three answers i got most frequently were number one, enter we cannot talk about this. Someone suggested americans would not understand it anyway. Number two, we should study this further. Number three, we must educate and retrain alan arkins for the jobs of the future just retrain all americans for the jobs of the future, which sounds responsible. But i said look, i checked the study the studies. You want to guess how effective retraining programs were for manufacturing workers who lost their jobs . Zero to 15 success rate. A total done. Dud. Desa total a total when i said this to the people in washington, d. C. , they said they will get better at it. Do wellle in d. C. Will whether we dwell or not. One person in washington, d. C. , level with me and said some thing that brought me here to you all. He said andrew, you are in the wrong town. No one here will do anything about this because washington, d. C. , is for the mentally town of followers and not leaders. The only way fundamentally a town of followers and not leaders. The only way we will do some about this if you are to create a wave and bring that wave crashing down on our heads. I said i accept that challenge and i will be back with the wave. I stand before you today and im fit in the polls to be the nominee of the democratic party. [applause] we raised 10 billion last quarter and a commence 30 each. Million, zero corporate pack money, all people powered. All grassroots. We will do better than that in this quarter. We are going while other campaigns are shrinking because we are solving the actual problems that got donald trump elected. And we have Real Solutions that would help move the country forward. What are the solutions . If youre here today, and i appreciate you braving the elements and say im going to go see andrew yang, if no it is yucky out. I grew up in New Hampshire too. If you are here today, at some point, you heard, this guy wants to give every american 1000 per month. Whomever the first time you heard that . And the first time you heard that, you are like ha ha, that is a gimmick, too good to be true, that will never happen. But this is not my idea, and it is not a new idea. Thomas payne was sort of the founding of the country and called the citizens dividend. Martin is a king fought for in the 1960s and called at the guaranteed income for all americans and it is what he was fighting for what he was assassinated in 1968. I had the provision sitting with Martin Luther king the third and atlanta, who said this is what my father was fighting for, when he was killed. Economists endorsed it in the 1960s. It passed the u. S. House of representatives twice under richard nixon, it was called the family assistance plan and to set an income floor for all americans. 11 years later one state has to diffident where everyone in that state gets between 1000 and 2000 hours per year no questions asked. What state is that . Alaska. And how they pay for it . Oil. And what is the oil that when he First Century . Data. How many of you got your data check in the mail . We left, where the data checks go . Thebook, amazon, google, mega Tech Companies that are paying zero or near zero in taxes. That is a game, New Hampshire. Archimedes are getting sucked dry and depleted and we are looking around wondering where the value went. And the biggest winners in that when he First Century economy are paying zero in taxes. What we have to do is get our fair share your fair share, make sure amazon, this chilly Dollar Tech Company actually is paying taxes. Equally important, we have to put that value into our hands come into your hands, the hands of the American People. Build a trickle up economy from our people, our families and our communities up. If we put this thousand hours per month into your hands, where will the money go and reallife . Im going to guess a lot of it will stay right here in nashua or New Hampshire. It would be good for the chamber of commerce. If you run a business here, you think maybe people will be patronizing my business more often. The money were going to car repairs you have been putting off, daycare expenses, Little League signups, local nonprofits, religious organizations. It would create a sustainable path for a rural parts of the state that right now are struggling to find it. It would make our people stronger, healthier, mentally healthier, less stressed out. For the students laboring under tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt, it would help to clear that debt. Though i want to do more to clear that debt independent of giving you 1000 hours per month. Because at 1. 6 between dollars this out of control and it is immoral the way it was generated. This 1000 per month would help manage the greatest transmission our countrys history. I am friend with some of the leading technologists in the country and they tell me hey, andrew, ive seen what is in the lab. And when it comes out, it is going to be a bigger problem at anyone realizes. You know how that conversation never goes . Andrew i have seen what is in the lab. And every thing will be fine. That is not the end of that thought. The more someone knows, the more concerned they are. The folks in washington, d. C. , are decades behind the curve, on technology in particular. They got rid of the office of Technology Assessment in 1995. Congas heads literally had zero input on Technology Issues for 24 years, aside from the Tech Companies themselves. And you can guess what the tech coming is have been telling them. So these are the changes we have to make to rewrite the rules of the 21st century economy to work for us. , to work for you. If you are a young person and feel like is not working for you, you are right. It is not working for you. If you born in the 1940s in the United States of america, there was a 93 chance you would better than your parents. That is the american dream. It drew my parents here. If youre born in the 1990s, youre down to a 5050 shot and the number is a kind and quick. That is why the number is declining quick. Thats why young people feel we have left an economy that does not work for you in a mess, in addition to climate change. And we have. If you are young person and you feel distressed or angry about it, i get it. We have to do better for you. We have to start measuring how our economy is doing based on how you all are doing, to see how it is working. Again, corporate profits at record highs while our Life Expectancy is declining, which is more important . Yes, i agree. Areou think about how we measuring the value that we are producing, my wife is at home with our two young boys, one of whom is autistic. What is her work included at in our economic measures . Zero. And we know that is nonsense. We know the work shes doing is among the most challenging and important work that anyone does. It is not just her work. The things we value most are progressively getting zero out in american life. Parenting, yes, nurturing, caregiving, volunteering, mentoring, coaching. Increasingly, arts. Increasingly, journalism. In our market is going to systematically undervalue the work done by women and underrepresented minorities in particular. We all know that women do more of the unrecognized and uncompensated work in our Society Everything will day. Every single day. By measuring our progress, we can see the depth of the problems and start working to improve upon them. So if gdp is this phantom measurement that has less and less relationship with how we are doing and even its investments are inventor said hundred years ago this is a terrible measure of National Wellbeing and we should never use it as that, what would a measurement that actually measures how you and your family are doing look like . What would that measurement be . Contributions . How about Mental Health and freedom from Substance Abuse . How about . Life except and see . . Life expectancy . Ability to retire with dignity . Clean air and clean water . We can make these the measurements of our society. As our president that is what i will do. Gdp is a hundred years old, past time for an upgrade. We will see we are in a Mental Health crisis. We are in a wellness recession. Our environment is getting worse and worse and is not included in our current numbers. How many of you all have run a Business Organization or a department or division . Imagine if you have the wrong measurements for that organization, how would it do overtime . That is where we are as a country. We are getting beaten over the head with ddp, headline unemployment and stock market prices. And none of those things has much relationship with how we are actually doing. Gdp i stopped about a little bit. Stock market price i talked about a little bit. Owned basically zero stock. , stock prices correspond to the top 50 of society if your generous. And headline in a plummet does not correspond to the fact that Village People are dropping out of the workforce, people are doing two and three jobs to get by and millions of College Graduates are doing a job that does not require a college degree. If you do the numbers right we kenexa make progress. Donald right, we kenexa make progress. We can make progress. Said in 2016 he was going to make America Great again. What did Hillary Clinton say . Americas already great. The problems are real. There deep in our communities. We need solutions that will help us move forward. What would Donald Trumps solutions . We will build a wall, turn the clock back, bring the old jobs back. New hampshire, we have to do the opposite and accelerate our economy and society as quickly as possible to rise to the real challenges of this era. We have to evolve in the way we think about ourselves and our work and our value. Im the ideal candidate for this job because the opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math. Thank you very much, nashua. [laughter] [applause] acronym, what does it stand for . Thats right. Make america think harder. Youre going to help us move the country not left, not right, but forward. Thank you very much. We are going to celebrate new years. Nashua, there is a giant party at marthas exchange. [applause] i will try to project, i have a couple of questions i want to ask to start off and then we will look to the audience. As a prep for that, if you have micestion, you can use the that samantha is pointing to. As you get up to ask your question, state your name and if you are with an organization or business as well. Let me start off. You talked a bit about jobs going away because of Artificial Intelligence and automation. Here in New Hampshire, we are seeing the opposite of that. We have thousands of jobs left unfilled now because employers cannot find sufficient skilled workers to fill those jobs. How does your economic plan and your education perhaps, how did those policies help Business Owners who right now cannot be as successful as they could be because they do not have the people to fill the jobs . Yes, a lot result does revolve around education. Many of the employers looking for workers are trying to find skilled techno workers, tradespeople. Weve a Massive National shortage of tower climbers and spacey repair people hvac repair people and people who work on the guts of our infrastructure. There are other needs and gaps to. But im going to talk with these technical jobs because i to give such a massive opportunity. Only 6 of High School Students are in tech or trade our friendship programs now. In journey is 59 . Think about that golf. Gulf. We are lagging behind because employers are looking around and sing i need to get someone with this type of training. This has the added benefit of same to young people that college is not the beall and endall for everyone. Only area percent of people will graduate from college and we have made it more and more expensive. We have to create paths forward for different students in different areas and leave them to the opportunities that need to be filled, and many communities. I will also suggest that, a lot of people looking to hire, too, and see the headline on a plummet rate, it does obscure a lot of weakness. Because if you are doing multiple jobs to make ends meet, you count is employed and if youre underemployed, you can is employed and if you leave the workforce to to cover relative, you do not get included in that number. Relative. For so theres a lot of weakness being obscured because were using a measure that is out of date and misleading. I want to followup up on your freedom and dividend plan, 1000 per month, dont have to do anything forward for it, sounds good to a lot of people. , there aree math little over 209 million americans who would qualify for year, at 12,000 per meaning 2. 5 trillion a year to find that. How does the math actually work, that you can tax whatever corporations you want to tax to come up with that additional revenue every year forever . Im so glad you asked. I love it so much. First, you have to look at who the biggest winners are going to be. If you have amazon, google, facebook, systematically paying zero or near zero in taxes, youre going to problems reporting things affording things. But if you put a mechanism in place will be all get the tiniest slice, our fair share of every amazon cell, every google search, eventually every robot truck mile and a i work unit generates 800 billion dollars per year with a giant up arrow attached to it so that number will shoot up. Now it hundred billion is not 2. 4 trillion, as you suggest. But after he put the money into arch hands, it is not as a peer, it circular throughout community and our businesses over and over again and ends up increasing tax revenue by, conservatively, liz collett 600 billion or so. Then heres where the magic comes in. You save hundreds of billions on things like incarceration, homeless services, emergency room health care, that we spend almost a 20 on now. It was almost 1 trillion on now. A corrections officer said we should pay people to stay out of jail because he sees how expensive it is when they are in jail. This is what happens in our society. We do not invest in people and end up paying and much more expensive and punitive ways when they hit our institutions because we know our institutions are quietly expensive. The last piece are incredibly expensive. The last piece and the best piece shows if you are able to alleviate poverty in this way, you would increase our gdp by seven her billion dollars per year just on the basis of Better Health and educational outcomes of our people. This is a massive investment in human capital. This does not take into account the catalyst for entre worship and creativity and Value Creation that would ensue catalyst for entrepreneurship and Value Creation that would ensue in people being willing to take risks and not feel if they fail it will mean the difference between having a home and not. I will ask one more and then open it up. Right now, youre on a Job Interview with the American People, for very important job, the leadership position, the ceo to end all ceos. As someone who has hired many and perhaps fired a few people in your life, [laughter] what is your advice to the American People as they compare and consider all of the candidates . What should they be thinking about as they check your qualifications and those of others to make sure they make the right choice to fill this critical position . I love this question so much and i have never gotten it. I love it. Kudos to samantha from the chamber, his question that was. [applause] to be the most important thing about who we choose as our president is whether they understand the real problems on the ground as we are expensive as we arethen experiencing them and can actually Bring Solutions to bear. Technology is the driving force between many changes in our economy and society. Most of the other figures in this race, who might like and admire a great deal, and i consider many friends. Many do not understand technology very well. They also do not understand technologies intersection with the labor force very well at all. That if we have the wrong person in that seat, we are going to have another four years of your malls closing, of ai getting smarter, of the robot trucks charting to most play on the multiply starting to on the highways. It is going to get harder and harder for us to actually put into place a path that lets americans know we are not going to be left behind, that we are the owners and shareholders of this country and not inputs into a giant capital efficiency machine. If you do not understand the real problems, you will not be able to solve them. And i have a much clearer understanding what lies ahead for this country. I will shift to all. I see we have a line. We have probably 15 minutes for questions. I am well bronson and drove down from maine today. I am president of the enlightened education coop. Which is based in florida. My question is a followon to the guaranteed universal basic income. The rationale for that, is to deal with the dislocation that will come from increase in ai and robotics and automation. But there is an equally strong justification for it in my view, and i wonder if you would. Omment, according to m. I. T. Scientist, a scary statistic because the exponential rise in autism. Years,ims that within 10 every other family will be dealing with a child in the autism sector spectrum. Thisll take a terrific amount of resources to provide for homeowners typically, caretakers in the home who are not being paid. And you have spoken to this on occasions. Could you comment on this as a possible other justification and reason are rationale for the freedom of dividend, which i like to call that technology dividend. Mr. Yang thank you for this question. These are the best questions ive received in some time. I have a son on the autism spectrum. Special needs is the new normal. I have not seen a study that suggests is going to get up to 50 . But it is already normal in many millions of families around the country. The big problem here is that you have a special needs child, like my son, who shows up at school and the school says i do not have the Resources Available to do what this child needs and requires, because i have one teacher for 20 kids. I do not have the budget for this. So, that child ends up falling to the cracks, the family has to scramble. There are massive problems. But it is in a large part partly because we are confusing economic value and human value. We are saying this kid needs more and thus is a burden on the community, instead of seeing it the way we should be, which is that our kids well being is the economy. We should use that as a measuring stick. Which, intimately, means you pay teachers more. You hire more teachers. You line up on the standardized test we devised during what were to to decide which is not to the send to the front lines and no we are bludgeoning our teachers and kids with them. You stop teaching schools he stopped treating school Like Assembly lines and try to put resources in place to give kids what they need. If you change from a cost model to an investment model, you see this is the future of our the 21st century economy, making ourselves stronger, healthier and more whole. If we do not evolve in that direction as quickly as possible, youre correct that many committees will feel themselves to be overwhelmed by the cost of supporting many specialneeds children who, quite frankly, are going to grow to be specialneeds adults. If we do not start changing the measuring stick, we will see these people as, again, cost centers and burdens instead of being owners and parts of our families. So think you for the question. [applause] hello, an executive from upper massachusetts, speaking about make americans think harder. We need a National Science lift up theam to population economically, and inspire the population. But we have a couple major problems to solve first. Number one, you are talking about your friends who went to wellesley with the derivatives and stuff, since 2008 the big banks are much bigger. About to blow out the Federal Reserve that has been giving them a hundred Million Dollars a day since september, which means we are close to a very big global blowout again. House, hr 2176 in the everyone should be calling the reps and to demand that passes and becomes law. Last, we have to get back to economic sovereignty. In other words, we do not need independent, private entity controlling our economy. We are over 20 trillion in tot, so we have to get back the Federal Reserve quest fixed currency and get back to the american system. Mr. Yang this was a profound question. Some people when they come to an event, one of the thoughts is, where do we get the money to do what we need to do . How many of you here remember footing for the 4 trillion barrel bailout of wall street . How many of you remember anyone saying where we going to get the money . That is what hes talking about, this printing of hundreds of millions of dollars a day to shore up the Balance Sheets of our banks. No one voted for that. No one said yes, lets do that instead of billing out homeowners. To be the august choice was to bail out homeowners and keep people in their homes and keep communities whole. Instead, we chose to recapitalize the banks. That is emil maddock of the choices we are making in this country that that is an emblem of the choices we are making in this country, everything revolving on the almighty dollar. We have to choose our people. Recapping ms of we capitalizing wall street and privileging them, youre right. The banks are observing more and more financial activity. Community banks in places like New Hampshire in the past, if youre old enough, you likely remember Community Tanks that got gobbled up by banc of america and the gang. This is what we have to again counteract. We have to choose our people instead of the banks and we have to stop bailing out wall street and letting them run and own our economy in this way. So thank you for this question. 2176. If you could keep your questions to saint that could help us get more questions in. Im a College Student from west or, massachusetts. Worchester, massachusetts. You want to put taxes on Different Companies such as amazon, facebook and the like. How can he prevent these companies from outsourcing themselves to other countries to or the removal of tax breaks . Mr. Yang this is based on a system it affected just about every other developed country and it occurs at the pointofsale. We are the number one market in the world. So even if amazon were to ship offices from other places, they were paying at the pointofsale so they paid a matter what. This is what other countries have figured out. Having the ammons of having the amazons of the world is untenable. It has worked everywhere else and would work here too. Youre right, companies we do anything to save money but has worked everywhere else. Jeff bezos now is worth 109 billion postdivorce. [laughter] if you were to ratchet up the tax rate lets say 275 percent or 80 , how much of his one to 9 billion to get lets say two 75 or 80 . Pays himselfuse he something modest and most of his wealth is tied up in amazon stock. Like willie sat the bank robber, white banks, because that is where the money is. The money is flowing to amazon so you take it at the pointofsale there and you get billions from his business. Then went jeff takes billions of dollars out of stock every year or buy rocket ships from mars which is what he does, you get a tall there to. You get it coming and going. Because it is that the pointofsale it does not matter where they base their operations. Thank you. [applause] hi, im a Campaign Supporter for massachusetts. Mr. Yang i can tell by the shirt. Thank you. And i would like to iowa. It might be time to put minds at ease that route health care. This phrase, medicare for all has become a sort of political football and almost a branded phrase at this point. Anchoredxtent are you specific and especially to medicare for all as it is written, as a phrase, and to what extent what universal health care the a more useful phrase . Mr. Yang i like where your head is that, kurt. To me medicare for all is universal health care for all americans. It is not the name for a bill, it is a name for try to get every American Health care independent of their work status or whether or not they can afford certain levels of premiums. I am not someone who things you can uproot private insurance plans quickly. Because youre talking about millions of americans on these plans. In some cases they actually negotiated away higher salary for the plan. So legislate nose out of tostence quickly seems so legislate those out of existence quickly seems impractical or disruptive. The plan to be for the government to provide a public coverage option that outcompete the private insurers and squeezes them out over time. To your point, it is true that medicare from means certain things to certain people. And youre probably right that universal health care would be a better way to frame it. [applause] good afternoon. Make americans think harder. I would challenge you to think harder to look for chest moves that reduce the size of government and make it a for your country, such as if a state legislature says, no more zoning restrictions in any city and town immediately, there would be an abundance of new jobs and demolition and construction. ,nd with a glut of housing meeting the modern code, there were to meet at leiby land lords scrabbling to find tenants there would immediately be landlords scrambling to find tenants for have to rent their pain now. With more half the rent they are paying now. There would be people at the bus stop and buses adding more roots. My name is tom and i used to be a state rep here. I live in hudson coming to hampshire. Mr. Yang i was going to comment that you sounded and felt so New Hampshire. There sets this libertarian element to this idea. Im synthetic to many aspects of it i am so pathetic to many aspects of it. We have to lighten up on restrictions, a lot are nimby. A fertile housing is good in the abstract but not here because i do not want it to depressed home value. Big picture, terms of the federal government, donald trump said he wanted to drain the swamp. In many ways he was not wrong. It was the richest city in our country and what are they producing . Unclear. He said he wanted to drain the swamp. I want to distribute the swamp. Why would you have tens of thousands of employees and buildings in the most expensive city in the country . You should be moving those agencies to ohio or michigan or New Hampshire or florida, or place that would love to have that economic activity. The cost will be lower because every thing is cheaper in these places. I would argue the decisions would be better because they would be tied to our communities and make decisions not from the bible of washington, d. C. Not from the bubble of washington, d. C. , but from a place where people are actually living in leading normal lives. I do think about zoning regulation stand in the way of a fertile Housing Developments of affordable housing. Like his sweater too [applause] i was at your Hanover Town Hall event a month ago. This is the best way i can get my message out to people and i think this would in a encapsulate what we are all thinking. There has not been a pole in an early state released in 47 days. The chairman of the dnc rejected your request to release more cutting offolls, a vital pathway to the january debate. Thes the buffalo bills, democrats and fighting for the little guy, not in that order. Apparently he does not Like Fighting for the little guy who has over 400,000 donors including some right here in New Hampshire. If you look at that in an early state. To the people in the room, we have a chance to outrace Elizabeth Warren in the fourth quarter. Im going to look toward the base camera in the room. [laughter] if theres someone from the dnc watching, oh shoot, where am i . Look at the crowd. We crowned under people into a room built for 30 and there people watching from out the door. Poll the people, is my point. I am more passionate about this that anything i have been in a longlet me give you a high five, man. [applause] soap fight for the little guy and all the little guys in this room and fight for the American People. Poll the people. To the people over 18 years old, keep phone banking, canvassing, keep yanging people. We know it is not left, is not right, it is forward. Gain t of that yang yang gang. My thoughts are, youre making me feel better about the future, by being so passionate and arctic lead and spot on. On. Nd articulate and spot what is the number one criteria for democratic voters . Beating donald trump, that is right. A bull here said 10 here in New Hampshire would support me over donald trump in the election. Unlike the other candidates in the field, i am drawing in disinfected from voters, independence and progressives. Donald best to take on trump and beat him. Confident we will make the debate stage. We actually said we will pay for the polls because they were complaining about having to pay for it. Ellis, you are an inspiration to me. Hes also posted chop for the i think we should lower the voting age to 16 and hear me out. Some of you are like that seems aggressive, but 16yearold can pay taxes. If you have been being able to vote, it would turn every high school as a political hotbed. Earlier it theat more like you are going to vote throughout the life. The main counterpoint is that sixyearold to to illinformed to vote. Think ellis has proved that keep donating, we have to make it. My apologies for those who did not get your question in. Thank you for coming out. I will add my own personal. Hanks whether you are supporting another candidate, your participation in the process helped make it a stronger and Better Process for all of us. A pleasure for sharing your time and your positions. Again, our host and corporate sponsors, thank you for coming. I believe you are going to do here. So lineup for enjoy the rest of your afternoon. [applause] [in audible conversations] [inaudible] [inaudible] are [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] great to meet you. Hi, how are you . How are you doing . Fantastic. [inaudible] thank you so much. Always rooted for your. Thank you. I love the campaign and love the message. It is good to see you. Thanks a much. You. Ank can you sign this poster . That is what cracks me up. [inaudible] we opened an office there. I saw you on an interview with cnn. [inaudible] thank you. Here we go. [inaudible] thank you. Congratulations. Have a great one. How are you doing . Fourth time meeting you. See you again. I remember meeting him. Dad one time. Y i remember. [inaudible] your hair is so badass. I would never be able to pull that off. [laughter] [inaudible] love what you are doing. [inaudible] you will win. [laughter] thank you. I really like this group. [inaudible] i am happy to sign whatever you guys like. [inaudible] i am not good company if i am drowsy. My friends are always trying to get me to go out when i am drunk. [laughter] [inaudible] do you live here in town . [inaudible] is there a boarding school there . There is. Nice to meet you. Thank you. [inaudible] thank you very much. Of course. I was one of your 65 k donors. We have been following you since we heard about you on rogan. Hopefully you have enjoyed the growth. Absolutely. Og. 5,000 makes you really thank you both. Thank you. [inaudible] [inaudible] finally get to meet you. [inaudible] [inaudible] could you say hello to my best friend in california . She did not think i was going to meet you. Thank you. I am here with your friend drew. He proved you wrong. Here he is. Make things better for you and drew and every other person who has served the country. I assume he is a veteran . Know he has just been supportive of me. We have to make this country work for us. I appreciate you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Anytime a veteran says, this has helped me. I am a Success Story for that. The company took me in, showed me the roots, and i am senior principal analyst. I believe it, brother. Thank you, drew. [inaudible] you nailed it. Thank you. I am sophia. Nice to meet you. Let us get a good picture. I will be on your right. Thank you. Do you want me to sign anything . Yeah. I am two years into a fouryear term. Good for you. I tried to talk to politicians about the problems. [inaudible] are you a couple . This is my fiance. The political future if you want it will be high. Thanks. Congratulations. Thank you for coming out. Good luck. Thank you, sophia. We are having a part. We are having a party tomorrow night if you want to come. I am a bartender. [inaudible] i may come by. I would like that a lot. Thank you so much. Our 18yearold son said you have to meet that guy. That is so awesome. [inaudible] he is in college. [inaudible] [inaudible] we have to become a sovereign nation again. You dont want the independent fed. Yes. [inaudible] very few people talk about that. We dont solve those problems. I am aligned. Ok. [inaudible] i am pronuclear. Are you profusion . Yes. Up spacering exploration, we have to get there. We will. Thank you, man. Hello. Good to see you again. [inaudible] [inaudible] hello, hello. Hello team. [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [bleep[inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] announcer 2020 candidate Elizabeth Warren delivers a new years eve speech in tuesday in boston. Life at 11 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Online at cspan. Org or listen live on the cspan radio app. Congress returns for work the first week in january. Here is what is head ahead. They have to decide on impeachment managers and send the articles to the senate. The senate will set as a jury to hear the cases against President Trump. We also expect the senate to take up the u. S. Mexicotrade agreement which has approved before leaving for the holidays. Congress will hear President Trump delivered the state of the unit address on february 4. Watch the house live on cspan and the senate live on cspan2. Candidate Kelsey Gabbard in New Hampshire. They hold the first of the nation primary on tuesday, february 11. [applause] thank you. For all ofery much you to be here. We are in troubling times. Iselieve the United States under stress. Than everre important to choose the right person to be in the white house and lead our country in the right way. Muchire very re