Posted on 09/22/2024 9:09:02 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
Self explanatory, with commentary.
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Nope, not gonna do it....nope....must resist.....
Should “Snatch” AND “Kamala” ever be in the same headline?
No. Only knee pads and Willie Brown.
I didn’t title the video, just added “of pharmaceuticals” at the end, to avoid confusion. Call itwat it is.
Becoos it’s only honest.
And they say Trump is a threat to democracy, dictator and a “Hitler”. What she is proposing is not only unConstitutional but a dictators response to a problem.
Where are Trumps ads? Why isn’t he using this in an ad? Is it because I live in New York they aren’t showing it?
Economically illiterate. Will lead to NO new medications.
Trump isn’t running many ads AFIK. No idea why.
Ask the RNC.
That’s not good at all, I am seeing a lot of Kamala ones and zero from him. What is he doing with all the campaign money? Spending it on rallies? That’s gotta stop, all he is doing at those rallies is talking to people who already support him. He has to go after the independents, the undecided. This is no joke, if he loses this thing we’re going to have 8 years of a brainless heroin addict as President, and she is a heroin addict, I recognized it immediately the first time I ever heard her speak.
I haven’t watched the video yet, but a lot of the justification for them is federal research subsidies and that the invention wouldn’t exist without them. I urge anyone who gets the idea that the federal government is a good partner to have to read Faust. Kamala has appeared and is here to claim the fed’s price.
“Where are Trumps ads? Why isn’t he using this in an ad?”
Probably because there are so many stupid people who would think this is a good thing “yeah man, stick it to big pharma!”.
My concern relates to the heavy federal funding of pharmaceutical company R&D, the exemptions from litigation, and the resulting enormous profits. To the degree Big Pharma is subsidized and protected from litigation by the government, perhaps some patents should be owned fully or partially by the United States, Here’s a link to an article about the enormity of federal funding of pharmaceutical development: https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/us-tax-dollars-funded-every-new-pharmaceutical-in-the-last-decade
Here’s a linke to an article explaining how Big Pharma avoids paying US taxes, even though pharmaceutical prices in the US are the highest in the world: https://freerepublic.com/perl/post
If pharmaceuticals corporations are paying for 100% of their R&D costs, and bear the liability of litigation when they fail to properly test new products or warn the public of known dangers using its products, then they should have complete patent protection and enjoy the profits the patented product generate. If their R&D is paid for by the taxpayer, and taxpayers injured by using the products are prevented from suing for redress, then pharmaceutical companies shouldn’t have patent protection and their profits should be heavily taxed.
Conservatives complain about welfare queens cheating the federal government of thousands and millions of dollars. We should be equally vocal in opposing corporate grift.
Remember the US consumer pays the highest prices in the world for pharmaceutical products. In addition we pay for pharmaceutical R&D with our tax money and the beneficiaries of these subsidies are Big Pharma and the government bureaucrats who administer the funding and share the patents. Why doesn’t the US government own the patents resulting from the R&D paid for by the taxpayer?
The rest of the world enjoys low costs for pharmaceutical products developed in the US because Big Pharma uses its US patent protection to charge huge premiums to US citizens while selling the same products abroad at much lower profit margins. Harris’s plan to appropriate patents may seen wrong but the current situation is untenable for US citizens and the remedy does lie with the federal government who created this mess.
Where are the Republicans on this issue? The Trump administration gave billions to Big Pharma for vaccine development and Congress gave Big Pharma total immunity from litigation during Covid. Big Pharma made record profits during the Covid period. Look at how much your Republican Congressman and Senator are receiving from the pharmaceutical industry to understand why they are complicit in rigging the system to permit Big Pharma to extract huge profits and subsidies from the taxpayer.
In a true free market, with many competitors, prices are low for consumers and companies do not earn obscene profit margins. The potential for litigation in a free market also provides an economic incentive for companies to fully test product before bringing them to market and maintain high quality in the manufacturing process.
The US pharmaceutical market has been corrupted by subsides, special provisions and cozy, profitable relations between regulators and the regulated. End the tax loopholes and R&D subsidies. Break up the big pharmaceutical companies into many smaller competing firms. End the industry payoffs to government bureaucrats. End the exemptions from litigation. End campaign contributions by pharmaceutical companies. End advertising of prescription drugs which funds the biased mainstream media. Then let them have their patents, they will have earned the patent protection in a free and competitive market.
You really think Kamala is going to do anything about it?
If anything, having RFK Jr. on Trump’s team will do way more about it than the Rats ever will.
That’s going to win a lot of support from big pharma, isn’t it?
She seems intent on nuking her own candidacy.
Just because you don't see them, doesn't mean there are none. Trump ads are all over the places they need to be, and most of them are great. If you want to see some, search on YouTube for Trump ads.
Agreed. I think she has a point (stopped clock) about sharing the patent since it was a partnership and the US Feds (we the people) provided the money, but the execution of it would be all wrong.
Flood my town with third world illegals, defund the police, allow vagrant towns everywhere, open drug dealing, criminality everywhere. All is good, as long as I can access abortion at any time.
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