Posted on 04/08/2025 7:45:40 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson
šØBREAKING: President Trump announces MASSIVE tariffs are coming VERY shortly on pharmaceuticals.
THIS is what I voted for:
"We're gonna tariff our pharmaceuticals ... we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals."
From Aaron Rupar
8:00 PM Ā· Apr 8, 2025
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Greed.
38Special is not cheap. I'd recommend using a nine instead, or better yet, use that .22LR plinker.
No I get it from an India Wholesale pharmaceutical company, no perscription needed. Quality is exactly the same. You can go to a site called Indiamart.com, all kind of things sold including drugs. Now you can’t get just anything like pain meds, etc. but a lot is available and at low prices.
The problem is the attention spans of individuals. An issue needs to be effectively shoved in front of them continuously. President Trump was a master of doing this with immigration, and his campaign did it with Trannyism.
Opps, maybe I shouldn't have said that.
All sources reporting originate from Yahoo, so far.
“Dead or alive, you’re coming with me.” RoboTrump
I love this guy!
(no homo)
Massive Tariff to me means 100%+. If the object is to get things on-shore, 300% may be justified for some drugs, but if there are drugs that are expensive to begin with that can’t be manufactured in the States, 300% is a disaster waiting to happen. If the aren’t manufactured in the States but could be, 50% now going up by 50% every six months until 300% is hit would seem a better scheme.
Your response is that of someone who assumes that markets can react instantaneously and no one gets hurt—or if it hurts, it doesn’t matter. Perhaps you should move north until you reach Alexandria or Langley.
It is also possible that you are content to pontificate on something that you don’t have the intellectual formation to handle. In that case a move to the north-west might be justified if one thinks in terms of traditional prejudices, but by my way of thinking the nicer parts of Boston would be fitting. Or perhaps you should undertake an Odyssey ending in Ithaca. Last I checked, there was still an outstanding Econ professor residing there that was connected with the real world in a way most economists aren’t, but I suspect he is in his 90’s now. Some good things can (or at least have been) learned far above Cayuga’s waters, but I am glad to see that Trump has pulled a billion in funding. But I digress.
yea but only 7.5 billion is from china at least thats the number i have
(Do Freepers know the difference between a tariff and an embargo? Some of the posts are so f’g lame I want to shoot the screen with my .38)
LMAO!
Alright, central _va, don’t pull an Elvis on us!!
It’s more complicated than that.
Precursors, etc
Lots of things are made from multiple components made in different places.
Precursors. You got it.
Some of you were taking a name-brand blood pressure medication that was suddenly taken off the market.
You couldn’t find information in the US regarding the drug’s removal. The Mexican government did provide that information. Turned out one of the precursors was sourced from China & was potentially cancer causing (in mice).
You don’t have to go back very many years to find a time when most of our drugs were made in the US.
And when assessing the potential for “disaster”, bear in mind that Trump and his team are not idiots. In fact, I’d say there’s a very good chance they have already thought through every possible contingency that occurs to FReepers.
A bad idea only if it fails to make distinctions and uses a one-size-fits-all solution.
Potentially a very good idea, but without proper distinctions possibly a very bad one.
People that are inclined to use a .38 on their computer screens might be inclined to use a tactical nuke on a group of robbers. Fortunately they will probably not use either, which may mean that they will continue to post.
And when assessing the potential for ādisasterā, bear in mind that Trump and his team are not idiots. In fact, Iād say thereās a very good chance they have already thought through every possible contingency that occurs to FReepers.
I am no longer a believer in 4-D chess.
Trump and his team have managed to turn a slam-dunk in Canada for the conservatives into a slam-dunk for the Liberals. I don’t think this was intentional.
THere is also a difference between “most” and “all.” THe difference could be huge for hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people.
(A.C.—this thread, not this post in particular, is worth a look)
How do you tariff your own pharmaceuticals? Wouldn’t you tariff the foreign countries drugs imported into the US? If so, the Medicare/Medicaid budget problems get worse along with average Rx prices.
Yep. Indiamart.com
Please lets just go back to making our own
Do you know what China puts into your pills ???
Israel can provide a lot of generic drugs.
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