I originally posted this as a response to a comment Marie3 recently made regarding the pharmaceutical company Mylans and its tax dodging, squeeze-every-penny-you-can-get approach to its products. (You can find it here.) I reconsidered and I’m now posting it as a standalone article.
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Marie3 wrote:
Another reason to hate Mylan, which jacked up the price of life-saving EpiPens: It’s a tax dodger :
The pharmaceutical company Mylan has been taking on a boatload of vituperation — and rightfully so — for jacking up the price of its lifesaving EpiPen injector, which reverses allergic reactions, by 500%.
But there’s another reason to detest this remarkably amoral corporation: It’s also a tax dodger. Mylan is one of the leading exploiters of the technique known as inversion, in which a U.S. company cuts its tax bill by acquiring a foreign firm and moving its tax domicile to the acquired company’s homeland.Mylan’s 2014 deal involved its buying a generics manufacturer from Abbott Laboratories and reincorporating in the Netherlands, the subsidiary’s home. As in all inversions, nothing else changed: Mylan’s operational headquarters remained in Pennsylvania, and its main workforce didn’t relocate. At one point, Mylan even appealed to U.S. antitrust officials to help it block a takeover bid from an Israeli company. But the deal did allow the firm to cut its U.S. tax bill.
Read on.
Marie…
Big Pharma may be the worst of all of them on a moral basis, along w/Big Med, Big Food and Big Insurance. They are all sellers of false hope and they all collude with one another. On every level.
By the simple expedient of cleansing the nation’s food supply…simple in concept of course, certainly not in application…the terrible health problems of this country could be improved immeasurably. But NOOOOOoooo…literally billions of dollars are spent each year by these forces on lobbying, on buying legislators and other pols and on massive propaganda and advertising efforts. (Propaganda and advertising are the same thing, really. One is subliminal and the other isn’t. Dr. Kildare knows…)
Meanwhile, back at the ranch…
Even the bought and sold pols fall for it.
CALLING DOCTOR FEELGOOD!!!
Before and after Botox/plastic surgery/whatever
AHHHhhhh!!! Now I can win!!!
PLEASE!!!
I swear…alien invasion is as good an answer to why this is happening as any other explanation. At the very least, the people who are intimately involved in this ongoing scam are alien to any common feelings of decency and humanity.
The teacher of…certain things…G. I. Gurdjieff had a term for these people. (Emphases mine.)
One of the major concepts of Gurdjieff applies the word “Hasnamuss” to certain types of people. According to Beelzebub’s Tales, Hasnamuss is a being who acquires “something” which creates certain harmful factors for himself, as well as for those around him. According to Gurdjieff this applies to average people as well as to those who are on higher levels.
This “something” is formed in beings as a result of the following manifestations:
- Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious
- The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray
- The irresistible inclination to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures
- The urge to become free from the necessity of actualizing the being-efforts demanded by nature
- The attempt by every kind to artificially conceal from others what in their opinion are one’s physical defects
- The calm self-contentment in the use of what is not personally deserved
- The striving to be not what one is
Sound somehow…familiar?
It does to me.
Later…
AG
