Zach Lahn

To say, what you and I are talking about, they're talking about, we hear it.

And they'd have to kill me to change the way I view these things, to get me to do something different that would be adverse to what the state and the people need.

It's like, I told somebody the other day, I heard this term is called, somebody used the term economic nationalism.

It was basically this idea that, like, the economy and the government of the country should be there to focus on making life better for the people in the country.

And I think, like, did we ever think that there was anything else?

I mean, we see something else, but like, this is what it's supposed to be.

The state of Iowa, its economy, its government, all the efforts it's undertaking should be solely focused on making life better for the people that are living there.

And let me give you one of the most egregious examples about this in my own state.

Right now, there's three big companies that control 85% of the agriculture input market.

When I was growing up in Iowa, there were over 300 companies.

They've bought up and bought up and consolidated and consolidated.

This way, farmers have the illusion of choice.

One of those companies is a company called Syngenta.

Syngenta is 100% owned by the state of China.

100%.

And we can get into what they produce and all of these things and that, but let me just say this first.

Since being Chinese-owned, the state government of Iowa has given a Chinese company $7.5 million in refundable tax credits paid for by the taxpayers, propping up a Chinese company.

It just... You know, one of the things, let me say this first, is that what you're... People talk to me running for governor about this idea of, like, foreign aid.

And I say, my state doesn't have clean drinking water.

Why would I ever want to send $1 to any foreign country when we have the fastest rate of new cancer in the history of civilization...