Thanks....more clear than anything else I’ve read on the subject.
~The Law of Not Stupid
Yeah, we probably would have been stuck using monoclonals and Ivermectin, and a lot more people would still be alive.
I am so SICK of being told that all of the Left's policies and programs are just some kind of misguided or ill-informed accident, when it's beyond obvious that their intent is to slit our collective throats.
“If the federal government intervenes in the market and prevents biotech companies from earning a fair return,”
1) What is a fair profit? 10%, 50%, 100%?
2) How much do Big Pharma and the biotech companies benefit from the billions of dollars the federal government pays in the form of direct subsidies to them for the development of products (i.e. Covid vaccines) and indirect subsidies in the form of research grants to universities?
3) Consider the fact for decades U.S. citizens have paid the highest drug prices in the world because the pharmaceutical companies amortize their R&D costs against the products sold inside the US which allows them to charge lower prices in other nations? Is it “fair” US consumer should pay more for the drugs they purchase, particularly when the US taxpayer is subsidizing the industry?
4) Is the compensation for the senior executives at Pfizer “fair” and reasonable. Per the most recent proxy statement the total direct compensation for the CEO of Pfizer in 2020 was $21 million. Total direct compensation for the top 5 executives at Pfizer was nearly $60 million. How much of that is due to the windfall of billions of government spending for Covid vaccine development and purchases of Covid vaccines for the population?
Please don’t infer I’m a socialist who wants government to dictate compensation and profitability to the pharmaceutical industry. However, I’m sick of big multinational corporations gladly receiving billions in subsidies, tax breaks, R&D subsidies, federal purchases and other direct and indirect benefits and then whine about government “intervention” in their markets. Many of the subsidies, tax breaks, R&D subsidies, and purchases occur because these companies spend millions lobbying Congress and paying off regulators by hiring them when they retire from the government.
Covid has exposed the cosy relationship between the FDA, NIH, CDC and the big corporations making billions off the citizens of the United States. There have been numerous threads on this forum about the federal government and the big medical corporations. Read Robert Kennedy Junior’s book about Fauci for more of the nauseating details.
Perhaps the real reason there isn’t a free market in medical care is because the big medical corporations have lobbied Congress and the bureaucracy to keep a free market from flourishing.
With leftists and progressives, it’s always the number one on their agenda...Getting rid of people...Population control is the idea they embrace,nio matter what laws they pass.....
As part of the Great Replacement, dems need to get rid of those old people. Covid helped, but not enough. There are still too many pesky old, mostly White, people around.
With biden helping, they will get on with the job of replacing the old Whiteys with new faces.
Conservatives need to quit being so naive and admit that we're dealing with the evil of communism on a grand scale. It's a leaderless communist revolution. There is no Mao or Stalin. There are thousands of them.
This is sick.
Dems are also targeting the young by indoctrinating them from a young age through evil teachers who are full zombies following the Dem montras without any thought to what is right.
Build Back Better’s bonanza of social-welfare spending.
The 2 million illegals give a sigh or relief and vote.