Posted on 08/19/2024 12:47:19 PM PDT by John Leland 1789
While traveling to Kentucky out of Indiana today, listening to Radio 970 AM, Louisville . . . .
Heard Kamala Harris blaming private companies for inflation by price gouging . . . .
Said that she will take, or take over, the patents of privately owned companies if she thinks their prices are too high.
She boldly and arrogantly said, "We CAN do it." Then said, "We have the WILL to do it."
The "We" in these statements, I suppose, refer to a Harris Administration.
Not legally, but they don’t care about legalities. If they are “nice”, they may change the law so it’s “legal”, but I seriously doubt they will even bother, why would they when they can simply brute force it. “What are you going to do about it?” mentality.
Under the Bayh-Dole Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayh–Dole_Act) the federal government has the right to “march in” on patents on inventions created using taxpayer funds—to require the patent holder to license the federally funded patent to other applicants. The draft interagency framework provides guidance outlining when the government should exercise its march-in rights, which have never before been utilized.
Get into bed with Fed.gov and you never know what can happen....
Not legally however that’s never stopped brandon or harris. theyve defied supreme court rulings they didn’t like. They do what they want and the republicans WILL NOT hold them to account.
No they cannot. However you will be found complicit in some J6 kinda operation that allows you to plead no contest if you sign over your property (patent). Kiddie porn on your computer, some waste product contaminating ground water, or some accounting flaw.
I think you might be conflating two of her policies?
She has said she’ll go after price-gouging supermarkets (outrageous), and that she’ll claw back the patent rights for holders who developed the patents with government funding under written agreement that they’d make their products from that affordable—but who violated that agreement (perfectly fine IMO if as described).
Benito Mussolini and Adolph Hitler approve.
No, this isn’t “Godwin’s Law” or “argumentum ad hitlerum”.
It’s just recognition that the Harris policy, the Hitler policy and the Mussolini policy regarding the relationship between industry and government are indistinguishable.
Harris is a fascist, Walz is a communist.
Heck — I would make the case that entire industries like aerospace and pharmaceuticals wouldn’t even exist without this government largesse.
My former employer just got $75 million from the government to be invested along with the company’s $75 million investment to develop batteries for large trucks, class 7 and 8. The investment is supposed to develop batteries for on highway trucks, except none of the OEMs are buying into it. My former employer can’t even keep the current employees busy for 40 hours a week.
“To be fair, this might be a well-deserved threat against certain industries that have been playing a fascist racket for a long time. In my line of work I have come across more than a few cases where the U.S. government dumps a ton of money into a research project with private partners, and at the end of the contract the private companies end up holding the patents, copyrights, etc. for innovative products they then sell for billions of dollars in revenues.
Heck — I would make the case that entire industries like aerospace and pharmaceuticals wouldn’t even exist without this government largesse.”
Now you are catching on... “Corporatism” is NOT free market Capitalism. They are two hugely different critters altogether. Yet they are falsely thought of as synonymous. And this is where the price fixing comes from. Meat for example, the huge packer corporations are doubling and tripling the prices before they ever even get to the retailer. This is why I claim from manufacture to consumer there is a 100% to 200% mark up. It is a fact... And these big crony corporations are the reason why.
But with that said, We DO NOT need government to get involved AT ALL. What we need is to police ourselves as consumers and DO NOT pay those prices. Refuse to buy in mass and live without it for awhile and the prices WILL come down.
Well, Billy Bob Thorton told Bruce Willis they did.
In Soviet America, to borrow a favorite phrase of the early communists, “Everything is possible.”
Yes... Pretty much every resource and commerce in the nation. Obama EO 2012:
Executive Order — National Defense Resources Preparedness
EXECUTIVE ORDER
NATIONAL DEFENSE RESOURCES PREPAREDNESS
And to top it off... All these Large Corporations the “business is always right” cult support are DEMOCRATS and part of the communist New World Order.
Yes, if it’s a dictatorship.
“government has the right to “march in” on patents on inventions created using taxpayer funds—to require the patent holder to license the federally funded patent to other applicants.”
IF all applicants are treated without favoritism, i don’t really have a problem with that ...
I used her words precisely. I didn’t conflate nor interpret.
No, but communist despots like Kamala sure will. Because she thinks she’s owed.
But I am telling you she has introduced two separate policies. The taking over the patents bit is only related to those funded by the government under the stipulation that the federal government can take them over if they don’t make their products from them available at reasonable cost. She hasn’t made any such claim more broadly.
Separately, she claims that she will implement price controls for “gouging” at supermarkets.
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