Trump signs 100% tariff on brand-name pharmaceuticals (www.usatoday.com)

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[-] protist@retrofed.com 13 points 3 weeks ago

Oh my god, Trump wants to lower drug prices, so he's doubling the price of medications available from literally nowhere else.

Years ago, I worked at a hospital that hired an old psychiatrist who we quickly realized was prescribing Geodon to almost everyone. Schizophrenia? Geodon. Bipolar? Geodon. Depression? Geodon. Borderline personality disorder? Geodon. Well, he only last a few weeks before being relieved of duty, and turns out he was in the early stages of Alzheimer's.

This story is about Donald Trump and tariffs.

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Actually lowering prices would require regulation, and he's built his entire corporate campaign on "we're getting rid of every regulation". Much easier to make them look lower in comparison.

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

We just got done establishing that tariffs are not a presidential privilege! What contrivance will they think up this time to “justify” it? Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago

Unfortunately, they've only established that the 1974 emergency powers act is not a legal way to establish tariffs; all other tariffs established by justifying them through other means are still (potentially) legal.

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Or are we officially past the stage of pretending now?

Pretty sure we're well past that point, but that word "officially" just means you can pick any arbitrary point and call that the "official" point we crossed the line. heh

[-] mriormro@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago

These tariffs are illegal. This is all meaningless.

[-] SoloCritical@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Illegal? Probably. Will this stop them from enforcing them? No.

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

A lot of pharmaceuticals are non-flexible markets. In other words, companies can simply pass on the 100% tax to those who need the medicine.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

That's the idea.

[-] Angrydeuce@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good, make it harder for people to get the medicine they need to survive, surely that wont radicalize a whole bunch of even more people into hating your fucking guts with the fury of 100 suns.

[-] Bwaz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Cue big increases in drug insurance prices and in percentage of people who can't afford needed medicines. Just another tax on those who have no say -- taxation without representation like days of yore.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

JFC, this guy is such an asshole.

[-] HubertManne@piefed.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

trumphole.

[-] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago

Looky there! Republicans supporting higher taxes. Again.

[-] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 weeks ago

What happened to the Supreme Court's ruling that tariffs imposed by executive order are unconstitutional?

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 2 points 3 weeks ago

It is the little known "who is going to stop me when I break the constitution" loophole in the constitution.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

[-] bradinutah@thelemmy.club 1 points 3 weeks ago

Plus SCOTUS made their ruling too narrow and it stopped only some if these unconstitutional tariffs.

[-] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 0 points 3 weeks ago

Here I was, believing that the US was the country of capitalism where the free market decides what prices should be. It seems like it's getting less and less free, just like it's people

[-] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

To be fair, the markets for bare necessities like medical treatment, basic nutrition, clean water, electricity, housing all shouldn't be entirely free anyway. Luxuries, we can debate, but survival should never be held hostage by greed.

Obviously, this is the opposite of securing necessities. Any tool can be used for evil, and Donnie Kiddyfiddler certainly is.

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