Moderna suing Pfizer over Covid vaccine technology

[gadje]

Interesting...


https://www.bbc.com/news/health-62691102

[Mr645]

Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

[SteveG]

Mr645 wrote:
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?

[Mr645]

Steve G. wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.

[DeusxMac]

Mr645 wrote:
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??

[Mr645]

DeusxMac wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??
Anywhere outside of Washington DC the action is called bribery, and is a crime

[Tiangou]

Mr645 wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=Mr645]
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??
Anywhere outside of Washington DC the action is called bribery, and is a crime
Legal bribery:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme...-rcna26466

In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, adopted in 2002, was a violation of political candidates’ free expression, applying long-standing rulings that said that because money buys the ability to spread political messages, limits on expenditures implicate the First Amendment.

...Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented... when political candidates lend money to their campaigns and then solicit donations to get repaid, the contributors know the money they’re giving goes directly to the candidates’ pockets.

“The politician is happy; the donors are happy. The only loser is the public. It inevitably suffers from government corruption...”

[Mr645]

Tiangou wrote:
[quote=Mr645]
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=Mr645]
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??
Anywhere outside of Washington DC the action is called bribery, and is a crime
Legal bribery:

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme...-rcna26466

In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, adopted in 2002, was a violation of political candidates’ free expression, applying long-standing rulings that said that because money buys the ability to spread political messages, limits on expenditures implicate the First Amendment.

...Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan dissented... when political candidates lend money to their campaigns and then solicit donations to get repaid, the contributors know the money they’re giving goes directly to the candidates’ pockets.

“The politician is happy; the donors are happy. The only loser is the public. It inevitably suffers from government corruption...”
Someone is putting up the money for all of these $100 million book deals

[GGD]

Mr645 wrote:
Someone is putting up the money for all of these $100 million book deals

The Republican National Committee paid more than $300,000 in October to a company owned by Donald Trump Jr. to purchase copies of his new, self-published book.

Autographed copies of the book, Liberal Privilege, were given out to donors who contributed between $50 and $100 to the RNC, according to a source familiar with the arrangement. The source said the promotion raised substantial sums for Republicans in the final stretch of the election.

The RNC’s payment—for $303,892.47 on October 28—went not to Trump Jr. directly but to a company called Pursuit Venture LLC. Corporate records in Delaware, where the company was formed in late 2018 and lists the president’s eldest son as its principal. The RNC’s payment was itemized as “donor mementos.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-republ...s-new-book

[RgrF]

Mr645 wrote:
[quote=DeusxMac]
[quote=Mr645]
[quote=Steve G.]
[quote=Mr645]
Big pharma fighting over our tax dollars. Makes sense

Why do you hate Capitalism?
When a group of companies spend $3 million per day "lobbying" those who make the laws, that's not capitalism.
How is that contrary to Capitalism??
Anywhere outside of Washington DC the action is called bribery, and is a crime
So you would agree that campaign donation limits ought to apply, that Citizens United was a poor court decision?