Mr. Yang so much love. What does math stand for . Make america think harder, thats right. The opposite of donald trump is an asian man who likes math, and that is this guy. What do we mean by make america think harder . I am not a career politician but a Problem Solver and i want to wake up america to the real problems that got donald trump elected. If you were to turn on cable news, why would you think donald trump is our president . Why did donald trump win iowa by nine points . Russia. Emails. Facebook. Hillary clinton. [laughter] mr. Yang the driving force behind Donald Trumps victory was we automated away 4 million jobs in ohio, michigan, pennsylvania, wisconsin, missouri, at 40,000 in iowa. Think about the 40,000 jobs in iowa, 40,000 families and not just manufacturing jobs but if you go to the shopping district or what used to be the shopping district, what do you see . How many of you know to Stores Closing where you work and live . 30 of americas stores and malls are closing in the next four years. Why is that . Amazon. Mr. Yang amazon, that is right. They are soaking up 20 billion to 39 and commerce every year and how much do you see . How must it they pay in taxes last year . Zero. Mr. Yang thats right. They suck up 20 billion 30 million from your communities. Your stores and malls close and people lose their jobs. The most common job in iowa and the United States is a retail worker, the average retail worker is a 39 year old woman making between nine dollars and 10 an hour. Amazon pays zero in taxes and how is that possible that they pay less in taxes than everyone here today . Corruption, a one word answer. Money is overrunning our system and amazon is laughing its way to the bank. These are real problems that help donald trump get elected. It is not just manufacturing or amazon, closing the Retail Stores but my friends in Silicon Valley are working on cars and trucks that could drive themselves. Talk about what that will mean in iowa, i was just in the countrys largest truckstop. They have 5000 people stop by every day. What will happen in five to ten years when the trucks start to drive themselves . Driving a truck is the most common job in 29 states including this one. Raise your hand if you know a truck driver. My friends in Silicon Valley are working on trucks that can drive themselves for the most american of reasons, the money. 168 billion per year in cost savings if they can successfully get rid of Truck Driving jobs. That is a lot of money. An unthinkable amount of money. So much money that if you are an investor and someone comes to you and says, if you invest 1 billion in my company i can get rid of truck drivers, you make that bet and they hire hundreds of the smartest engineers who are working on that problem right now and they tell me they are 98 of the way there. They are 2 from getting away from truck drivers, that is a big 2 because you cannot have them crashing into things at a 2 rate. O bet against these engineers and investors solving the last 2 is a losing bet because you are betting against the mass capital and technology of our entire society trying to get rid of truck drivers. What will that mean for the three point 5 million americans who drive a truck for a living or the seven main americans who work in truck stops and hotels and diners that rely on the truckers getting out and having a meal . These are the real problems of our time. We are in the midst of the greatest Economic Transformation in our countrys history, what experts call the fourth home industrial revolution. When have you heard politicians say that . Now is the first time and i am barely politician. [laughter] mr. Yang i spent the last seven years creating thousands of jobs all around the country and people were patting me on the back and giving me metals. But you dont get it, i was pouring, the water is rushing out the bottom and it got donald trump elected and is about to take off. I will use one last example on the technology front. When you call a Customer Service line, you get the bot, what do you do . You pound 000, human, human, human you say into the phone until you get a human. I do the same thing. We all do it. In two or three years the pot was sound like this, hey, andrew, how is it going . It will be efficient and delightful and you may not know if the software. What will that mean for the hundreds of thousands of americans who worked at call centers for a living right now who make an average 14 for our . This is a buzz saw and it is carried through many different parts of our economy. I was an unhappy attorney for five months and i can guarantee you can automate that job. [laughter] mr. Yang software can go through document review and the contracts better and faster than the human. We are in this incredible epic transformation and our politicians are not talking about it. I know this because i went to washington, d. C. And 2017 as a what will we do about the fact that technology is ripping apart our labor force . Immigrants are getting scapegoated but they have nothing to do with it. [applause] mr. Yang what do you think the good folks in washington, d. C. Said to me when i felt what will we do about the fact that americans are going to a fundamental transformation . That is right, they are doing nothing. Some said we cannot talk about that. Number two, we should study that. Number three, we must educate and retrain all americans for the jobs of the future. The last one sounds decent and responsible. But i did the math and the you want to guess how effective governmentfunded reTraining Programs were for the manufacturing workers in iowa . 0 to 15 , a failing grade by any curve. Half of the manufacturing workers have lost their jobs left the workforce and never worked again. Of that group have filed for disability and we saw surges in drug overdoses and suicides in the communities to the point where our Life Expectancy as a country has declined for the last three years. The last time american Life Expectancy declined three years in a row . Spanish flu of 1918. 100 years. We are in this territory because our society and economy is not working for us. The folks in washington, d. C. Will do nothing about this. Someone in washington said something that brought me here to you today in iowa. He said, you are in the wrong town. No one in washington will do anything because this is not a town of leaders by the town of followers and the only way we would do anything is if you create a wave in other parts of the country that crashes us. I said, challenge accepted. [laughter] mr. Yang this is the ideal place to create a wave and bring it crashing down on washington, d. C. You do not need that many iowans to start a revolution. One iowan is worth 1000 californians. This is how you start a revolution in iowa. [applause] mr. Yang because all you need is 40,000 iowans the vision sweeps the country. How do we solve this . If you know anything about me you have heard there is an asian man running for president was to give everyone 1000 for month. [applause] mr. Yang those three things are all true. [laughter] mr. Yang first time you heard this 1000 a month you laughed and said it was a gimmick. It can never happen. 1000 a month dividend has been with the country since our founding. Thomas paine was for it and called it the citizens dividend. Martin luther king fought for it and called it a guaranteed income and he was fighting for when he was assassinated in 1968, a Poor Peoples Campaign today, 1000 economists endorsed it in the 1970s. It was so mainstream if passed u. S. House of representatives twice in 1971 and came this close to being law. One state passed a dividend about 10 years later where everyone in the state now gets between 1000 and 2000 per year with no questions asked, what state is that . Alaska. Mr. Yang how do they pay for it . Oil. Mr. Yang what is the oil of the 21st century . Technology. Mr. Yang they call it the oil check in the last and they love it and we will call this the tech check and we will all love it. If you think, how can you afford 1000 per month for every american, amazon is paying zero in taxes and google, facebook, uber, these Tech Companies are investing billions in ai. , and you will see zero. We have to change that and make the economy work for us, the owners and shareholders of this country. This is the vision for a trickle up economy, from our people and families and communities up. I spoke to people on the way in who were laughing about the fact that the trump tax cut did not get money into our hands and trickle down economy doesnt work. They said the best way to get money into the economy is to give it to us because what would we spend it on . Shout it out. Tuition. Mr. Yang tuition, car repair, child care, day care, housing, Little League signups. How much of that money would stay here in iowa . Not all of it but most of it. Some of it would go to amazon and the gang, buy an extra toaster. It would give rural areas a path forward because they are being depleted. If you are a rural area, what happens when your kids age . They have to leave and that is not the way should be in the United States of america. This is the freedom dividend and nothing stopping us from making it happen, nothing stopping us from passing a dividend, companies do it all the time every day and when they do it what do we say . We say great job, good management, verizon, coke, they give money to shareholders and we are the owners of this country. We can return some of it to ourselves and the only way we would get it back. This country follows the almighty dollar and the thing to do is give us all more dollars. That is the basic plan. This is the big vision of the economy that would work for us but we cannot stop there. How many were excited about gdp when you woke up this morning . How many of you were like, i will make a big contribution to gdp, i can feel it . Of course not, gdp is at record highs and you know what else our record highs in america . Anxiety, depression, mental illness. Suicide. Drug overdoses. It is all heading in the wrong direction. How many of you run a business or organization, if you have the wrong measurements, you will never go anywhere. What good is gdp being at record high if the communities are falling apart . Robot trucks will be great for gdp but terrible for a lot of americans. If we want to transition to an economy that works for us and gdp is an increasingly meaningless measurement, what would get you excited if i told you this got better for the people of iowa . Life expectancy. Mr. Yang health and Life Expectancy, if we say were healthy and living longer, that would make you happy. What else . Clean air and clean water. Kids success rates. Freedom from substance abuse. [applause] no more guns. Mr. Yang how much of us are enjoying the work we are doing . These are the measurements we have numbers for an gdp is something we made up almost 100 years ago were even the inventor said that we should never use it as a measurement for National Wellbeing and we should not use it. What are we doing now, throwing it off a cliff. He also said we should include parenthood and motherhood as part of the measurement because it adds so much value. [applause] mr. Yang my wife is now at home with our two young boys, one is autistic and what does her work include, zero and she gets paid zero, the work she is doing is among the most challenging and vital work in our community today. Much more valuable than the average Hedge Fund Managers work. I would trade places with my wife. Id trade places with my wife for a day or two and i say, let me get back to running for president. [laughter] mr. Yang let me get back to running for president. [laughter] mr. Yang we have to do this as fast as possible because right now our economy is evolving in fundamental ways, they do not get it in washington, d. C. And we have to take this vision and bring it to the rest of the country as fast as possible. That is why i am with you in iowa. Iowa, you do not know how good you have it but you have this responsibility you take very seriously and i love you for it. You know you have this power. You are a bit spoiled, used to president ial candidates coming in showing up in your living room essentially. [laughter] mr. Yang i have only met him once, i do not know what i think about that yang guy. [laughter] mr. Yang the power is real and you have to use the power and take it and bring this vision to the rest of the country this time. If you lose this opportunity you have four more years of the a. I. Getting smarter and call center shutting, Stores Closing, we have to make this move, you are ground zero, you see it on the farms and main streets, you will see it on the highway soon. If iowa does not make this case, we will lose the opportunity and we need to make the most of it right now. [applause] mr. Yang this is the vision. This is the vision of the trickle up economy that works for us. And economy we can be proud to pass along to our children. This is not left or right, this is forward. That is how we will win the whole thing in 2020. Thank you very much, iowa, i love you, you are amazing. Thank you. We will take some questions because that is how the yang gang rolls. Wheres the music . There is no music. [laughter] mr. Yang in the back with the red balloons, shout it out. [indiscernible] mr. Yang look at that. Better ears than i do. The question is, how do we make sure the church and state stay separated . This has been engraved in our country since day one. We need to know there are many different ways to worship in this country and we need to have the government and peoples faith be independent of each other. Speaking for myself personally, i married a christian woman and we are bringing our boys up in the Christian Faith and it has been tremendous for a family but there are many different ways people grow up and the government should not be making those decisions for anybody. [applause] mr. Yang another question . With the glasses. You have a valueadded tax how can we make sure we are consistently getting the revenue. Even if spending goes down . Mr. Yang how do we make sure we keep the revenue coming in . There was a person here, i think was you who said have our deficits are at record high and i have been a businessperson and have run a company that was quite successful. When you have a debt problem as a business, you look at the revenue and expenses. Right now we have a revenue problem and an expense problem in this country. He revenue problem is that for the big winners of the 21st century economy we see next to nothing because they are good at moving all of the income through ireland or expensing it through stock compensation and we do not get the money. We need to reform the tax code to get a fair share of every uber ride and facebook ad and Google Search and amazon sale. That is hundreds of billions of dollars. On the expense side, we have to spend more widely in some instances. One of my plans is to take the military Defense Budget and move it to infrastructure because that is something we will need for a long time and will produce economic value and a lot of the same jobs. That is one way to become much more efficient as a country is by taking some of the resources on both sides. This will be unpopular. We should have it for the irs to give us our taxes, and they know what they are. They had them in the Previous Year and they can bill it for us and you can sign off and do something meaningful with your day. I would turn tax day into revenue day and make it a National Holiday and we would celebrate the fact that we had another all some year with hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue and have a party at a National Party where there would be thank you video from oprah and the rock and tom hanks. That is what we need to do in this country instead of treating us all like we are servants to the state, no, we are the shareholders and deserve to be treated like it. Thank you very much, iowa. I appreciate it. Happy sixth birthday to quinlan. As soon as you run for office, you will read anything anyone puts in your hands. [laughter] mr. Yang i love you, iowa. See you on the main stage in september and october because of you. Yang gang. Thank you. Thank you. Can i get one more picture . Mr. Yang i love the des moines register. [indiscernible] what are your thoughts on that . Mr. Yang it will help balance our economy because right now 1000 goes further in some parts of the country than in others but that will help people move in both directions. If you are living in a highcost part of iowa and want to have a bigger space, you can move someplace outside of des moines. If you want to move from a rural area into des moines, it is more feasible but it ministries have tried to follow people around as a you live here or there and changing the amount of money would be unfeasible and is much more straightforward and fair and universally popular if everyone gets the same amount. You made the september debate, what is your strategy . Would you keep it the same . Mr. Yang we raised over 1 million in 2. 5 days after the debates in detroit, hundreds of thousands of people and the majority of the money came from new donors so we will keep saying we need solutions and not soundbites and we can do much better for ourselves. Mr. Yang . You are a political outsider. In washington, people are trying to figure out gun safety [indiscernible] mr. Yang the vast majority of americans favor common sense gun legislation, background checks, and automatic weapons ban. It is the nra and lobbyists going against the will of the American People. I feel like momentum is growing and we will be able to change it. [indiscernible] mr. Yang what i love about the rules is that they are transparent and everyone can see what they are. We have to hit certain benchmarks. To me, i am a little bit biased because we made the debates but i think the rules are great. [laughter] mr. Yang but anyone who is complaining about the rules, they have been out there for months. [indiscernible] mr. Yang we raised over 1 million in the days after the last debate with less airtime than other candidates and if you do the math, if we could get twice as much airtime we will raise twice as much mone