John people act as if there are only two choices in this election, republicans and democrats but thats not true. There is one other party that is on the ballot in all 50 states and thats the libertarians. Tonight they are president ial and Vice President ial candidate gary johnson a bill weld will take questions from you, for me at home via social media, from you in the studio audience and from the street. Thats where the first question comes from. What would you do to create jobs . Government doesnt create jobs. The private sector does. What would you do . You can count on certainty when it comes to rules and regulations and when it comes to hiring, when it comes to being in business for yourself. John certainty will bring jobs. That is true. Small businesses dont need big tax cuts. They just need to know that its a oneway ratchet and taxes are only going in one direction, down in if we internalize that they will build that second factory and employ another 15 people. My question is in regard to the disinformation in the u. S. Since the financial crisis in 2008. What policies do you guys have that will foster on to premiership and turned the tide around about this problem . Well the taxes will only go one direction and that is down and the rules and regulations will only be better. Thats a certainty of regulation i decided when i was governor of massachusetts i wanted to do besides highwage jobs so i selected telecom, biotech and software which were three high Wage Industries and this was back in the early 90s. The average wage was on 50,000 all in. I met with the top ceos, what can i do come is a great is a great rations as a tax credit and are there determining issues and i made sure that everything they said they needed within reason as long as it wasnt against something else, they got and i got very happy and started opening new offices and in by the end of my first term if you were a Biotech Company and he won in the United States even if you are in the Research Triangle in North Carolina or illinois or new jersey which is a big competitive states you have to have an office in federalist where in cambridge or you would lose out on the information curve as to what was cuttingedge in biotech and employment exploded. John to go back, whoa who are u. S. Governor to decide telcom is where the intrashould be . It sounds like renee capitalism . Its a little bit of analysis, john. I had to go into that to note that this would be a place to encourage people to expand. If thats industrial policy make the most of it but i thought it was job instead of the station. At the end of my first term we have gone from having the highest Unemployment Rate among the 11 industrial states to the lowest of the proof of the putting was in the heating in that case. I am so pro free market but unfortunately wall street and banking i think has cast a shadow over capitalism and making people very afraid of work capitalism. How would you help to support and raise free markets while working to reduce crony capitalism . Most americans actually have come to associate crony capitalism and free market has one and the same when in fact they are opposites. Crony capitalism paytoplay is when government involves itself in business. We want government out of business. Thats the level playing field. Thats equal opportunity. John how . A lot of legislation gave an unfair advantage to business as opposed to legislation that could have treated everyone equally. One of the most depressing things ive seen lately both senator Elizabeth Warren of massachusetts and president obama saying to Small Business owners, paid you have a company here and you think you have created a lot of jobs. You didnt create those jobs, the government created those jobs. Please, gag me with a spoon. John lets go back to politics for a moment. Governor johnson you are polling at around 9 in most polls and the commission on president ial debates insists you must get 15 to be allowed in the debate. You say this is a conspiracy to exclude outsiders . We are okay with 15 . We think we will get to the 15 . The issue for us right now is not appearing on the topline of the polls. If we were to appear on the top one of the polls i believe wed be at 20 tomorrow. John they put trump and hillary on top. 99 of media reports that top line. John its usually 40 40 9. If they said tell a city like clinton, johnson or trump, gary would be a 30 right now. They dont say that. They say that would be right now. John on Facebook Ian Rogers asks how do you propose dismantling the department of education and irs . These are huge organizations with hundreds of thousands of employees the will there be transitional programs to ensure their employment in the private sector . Is important to run out, we are not running for king, we are not running for dictator we are running for president and Vice President that there are constitutional limits to that. We are going to sign off on it anything that abolishes congress. You have to have the political will to do it. If you think theyre a bunch of sacred cows there you would never get anything done. I came into office and furloughed 8000 state workers out of a workforce of 72,000 my first day in office. I never got a postcard in my two terms about where does this indispensable state worker go to that sunday one. John that is what the question is getting at. Would you just let them go . Yeah, absolutely. The government is too big. Im sorry. John audience . [applause] on twitter a young man recorded this question about regulating uber and lyft. Hi john im 20 when youre sold and im voting for libertarian ticket this year. Might question for the former governor is this im a former austin texas resident and fingerprinting legislation cause me to leave the city. I relied on the service is daily to get around. What is your stand on the limitation of fingerprinting legislation for Ridesharing Companies and would you support legislation that removes legislation . Absolutely legislation that would make it easy for an economy to thrive and im talking about uber an air bnb, to bury entrepreneur companies are being excluded. John this is the federal government. What do you have to do it that . May be nothing but if austin wants to do that is on austins parp account on us as president and Vice President to not put any more independence in the way that happening. We think willing buyers and willing seller should be able to Exchange Goods and services that the government telling them they should not do so. Okay . [applause] john on Facebook John posted what do you think of attacks over every wednesday pays the same percentage and everyone gets the same government service. Why should anyone pay or her less than anyone else . The same amount of meat cost the same whether purchased by rich or poor person. Why should government be different . If i could way that magic wand i am proposing to replace income tax and Corporate Tax with a consumption tax which i think fits that bill. John i do well, shouldnt i pay a little more than someone who is struggling . What im going to suggest to someone who has more money you are going to buy more things so you will pay more tax. John last question from times square. How would you get anything done with congress to stop the gridlock going on in d. C. . Look, we elect clinton or trump its going to be more polarized than ever. Thats a given. Nobody believes anything but that so suppose you have a couple of libertarians, former republican governors having served in heavily democratic states, gotten reelected by big margins. In the middle with a bipartisan demonstration, democrats, republicans, everybody libertarian leaning calling out those sites to come to the middle to address the issues that we do have. I think you can make the case that heard scenario might ask the workout. It could be a long cool drink of water. I think the members of congress would be delighted not to have someone in the white house screaming at them for being and not understanding what the latest proposal is the perfect solution. You know we have panctimonious g speeches out of the white house, no more buffoonery and bragging and bullying out of the white house. You can guess which is which. John for the record on the show we support gridlock. We think they do less damage that way. [applause] stick around gary johnson and bill weld a whole hour of town hall with your questions for the libertarian president ial candidates. [applause] [announcer] is it a force of nature . Or a sales event . The summer of audi sales event is here. Get up to a 5,000 bonus on select audi models. Always has to be who sat your desk . Phone now, with one talk from verizon. Hi, pete. Im glad you called. announcer vo all your phones can Work Together on one number. You can move calls between phones, so conversations can go where you go. Take your time. Im not going anywhere. announcer vo and when youre not available, one talk helps find the right person who is. Hi, john. announcer vo so wherever work takes you, you can put your customers first. Introducing one talk another way verizon connects your business better. Learn how at onetalk. Com. On a perfect car, then smash it into a tree. Your Insurance Company raises your rates. 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And would you do it for other drugs . Well since 1999, ive advocated only to the legalization of marijuana believing when they do that as a country and i believe we are going to do that as the country, then we will focus on drugs first as a health issue rather than a criminal justice issue. John unto another newer social issue and facebook, why should a private Business Owner be forced by government to serve a customer . A server can choose not to serve a customer if no shoes or no shirts but has to bake a cake for someone he disagrees with . Similarities to jim crow but there is no similarity. The customers free to take their business elsewhere. I think supporting discrimination is the wrong thing to do and i think the legislation would force the muslim to sell pork by force, that no one would be allowed to discriminate on the basis of religion. Utah has passed some really significant idea legislation that allows for religious freedom but it has clearly state that the fact that there will be no discrimination against an Lgbt Community which i think its been really targeted. So the utah statute for examples is that a church can do anything it wants to as a church. Its in the business of being a church. But if the private merchant wants to discriminate on the grounds of race or religion, those are way suspect categories. John a muslim ontap or newer must sell pork to you . Well, you are talking about potentially opening up discrimination in my opinion that maybe businesses in this country discriminate, the owner of the businesses discriminate against muslims because let just be safe. John that might happen. You are talking about a situation, you have to sell the cake to the individual that wants to buy the cake. You dont have to decorate the cake the way the individual wants to. Thats First Amendment and if thats legislation john that need signing i will be glad to send the legislation. We dont want to be any part of that kind of discrimination of any kind. John this Facebook User post this for governor weld you posting on fire is being a good justice and future appointments. None of them are consistent considered constitutionalist. Your selections are least likely to defend the constitution. I think theyre all good people. They are centrists. I was making a point that i would necessarily go out and find the most wacko liberal or wacko conservative person that i could in order to point them to the Supreme Court to further specific political advances. John feingold is a centrist . Russ feingold is a smart guy. Ive known him since he was in law school. Hes a smart guy. Theres a libertarian in this one and i heard about that one and im sorry but i know them all well and i think they are fine and intelligent people. I am. Concerned about how many people are in prison. I visit prisons frequently. I am shocked at how many women are in prison. Im shocked when i see elderly women imprisoned. John your question maam . I question is will you encourage governors of all the states to grant more clemency to the elderly that are in prison . Gas. Compassion. Giving judges discretion of the profile of the majority category in federal prison today a person has been arrested on numerous times for selling small amounts of drugs and thats the major category of federal prison today. John aaron brown asked this question and facebook. Why why should i i and evangelical christian vote for you . Hypocrisy is the unforgivable. Doing one thing, saying one thing and doing another and neither of us are hypocrites. Being honest in telling the truth, if you tell the truth you dont have to remember anything. That is what you can count on, transparency, the truth, no hypocrisy. 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With School Starting manpeople have questions about our broken education system. Where the changes youve made to the educational system . How would you improve the quality of education for all americans . We would abolish the federal department of education. [applause] when the state of new york ends up sending money to washington and by the time it comes back from washington with all of the caveats associated with how should you conduct education in new york state, really its a diminishment of about 6 of those Educational Resources that could have been in new york stands to begin with. More money for education is eliminating the federal department of education. We need our School Choice and more Charter Schools and more opportunity for those kids and their parents to escape from the School Systems to put pressure on the School Systems to shape up or ship out in after those took effect three years after i left massachusetts ranked number one in reading and math every year since then. So you know was in end to social corrosion where you get to the end of high school and you dont Show Confidence in reading and writing you get promoted because otherwise it would be discriminatory not to graduate you from high school. Thats not doing the student any favors at all so i think you need to be hardheaded bear. Education is a place where we need conservative hardheaded approaches. John a choice leaving it to the states for the schools to compete . As governor new mexico i was more outspoken than any other governor in the country regarding School Choice do we needed to open up competition to public education. John this freedom creates other rovlins. Trey price asked one of your policy ideas involves absolving the department of education putting education control the local local government parents but where i went to school with our to happen the most likely result is that some groups would pressure the schools to stop teaching evolution in favor of creationism and other attacks on science. Do you just let them . Well i guess you are back to the lunch counter now, one side one way and the other side the other way. Government exists to enforce the constitution, the law of the land and leaving choices to individual states i think we are always going to come down on the side of data must the horse does end up to be constitutional violations. John on face the key and moffitt asked what is your solution to the student debt crisis . I read you think Student Loans should be todd is libertarian and something Financial Aid is the reason for higher education. I agree but is that all you will support . Any reforms to help students like me pay for the hyperinflated cost of college . One thing i think we need is more on line education on the distance education as opposed to the most expensive model which is a fouryear bricks and mortar ivy class institution. John am. John mi just