The following is a letter to the editor by Rhino Times reader Christian Rice
In a show of support for Big Business over the average American, based on the false premise of reducing ‘overburdening regulations’, Trump takes action to increase profits of Big Pharma at the expense of the most vulnerable of American citizens, the elderly. With Trump’s rescinding of Biden’s Executive Oder 14087, Trump removes all price controls / models implemented to keep Big Pharma prices under control. This in spite of the following facts:
– On Average, pay 2 or 3 times as much as people in other countries for prescription drugs
– One in four Americans who take prescription drugs struggle to afford their medications
– Nearly 3 in 10 American adults who take prescription drugs say that they have skipped doses, cut pills in half or not filled prescriptions due to cost.
– 82% of Americans believe Drug prices are too high.
Conservatives love Big Business who do NOT have the interests of Americans in mind as they make business decisions. Rightly, businesses focus is on profits and returns on their investments. The role of Government is to keep the profit focus in balance with American interests. Hence the important of Government regulations to keep businesses to destroying the 1) Environment 2) Labor Rights, and 3) The US Economy. Especially for those organizations that posses the scale to operate outside of classic market controls. (Big Pharma, Big Oil, Amazon, Big Tech, etc…)
So, to anyone who says, Trump cares about the average American, this is the first example of many that will show you made a huge mistake when you voted in 2024. And this is just day 1 of Trump’s Oligarchy.
Christian Rice
What a moron. He still believes in the efficacy of price controls? How’d that work out for Nixon..? Or NYC Rent Control?
And just how deluded can you get? After a Democratic administration that gave us the most serious inflation in living memory, this guy wants to complain about higher drug prices, which he speculates will happen, as Trump hasn’t been in office for a single week!
This guy lives in an Alice in Wonderland of his own making.
What a moron. He still believes markets are efficient for anything other than profits and often profits at the expense of consumers. Especially when a product has only a single supplier.
How deluded can you get? After Trumps policies kicked off inflation and then exacerbated by Biden, this guy wants to ignore Trump’s pettiness and economic ignorance at the expense of the average American consumer.
This guy lives in an Alice in Wonderland of Trumps making where Tariffs don’t impact consumer prices, where immigrant labor isn’t important to our economy and price of groceries.
But you be you. It’s still a free country…..for now.
P.S, inflation was much higher and last much longer in my lifetime (and yours) during the 70s and 80s. But don’t let facts get in the way or your ignorance.
Hey Austin,
let me help you out a little…
“…economic ignorance…”? If being ‘economically ignorant’ results in being a multimillionaire, where can I get lobotomy.
“…where Tariffs don’t impact consumer prices, where immigrant labor isn’t important to our economy and price of groceries.” It only impacts consumer prices if people are silly enough to buy those products instead of a cheaper alternative. Again it’s called capitalism, you buy what you want from who you want. And I noticed he left out THE word in the second part…’illegal’ immigrant labor. That particular type of labor is the same as indentured labor. (look it up).
Finally, “It’s still a free country…..for now.” So apparently he’s going to roll over and become a true serf rather then (like folks like you and me) defend what is OURS!
Thanks, but I don’t even read his crap any more, Alan. It’s always fatuous, puerile and jejune. Never does he provide a novel insight, or display any perspicacity. I would LOVE to debate with a Leftist who was intellectually honest and held a commitment to truth, and the search for it. This guy just wants to score points, and will deliberately propagate falsehoods to “win”. It’s like arguing with a ten year old child. He’s never wrong, and always has to get in the last word. Pathetic individual. Odious too..
NP Austin…just a left over attitude from the military of covering a brother’s 6.
So your approach of making personal i suits is your intellectual response?! Lol, your lack of self awareness is stunning.
If you truly didn’t see my comments as relevant, you would just ignore them. Funny you are unable to do that. Seems to me you attack those you see as a threat.
But you be you.
Trump was born with a silver spoon in the mouth as his daddy left him over 350 million. His greatest skill is convincing losers to think he actually cares about them while taking their money. MAGA are just suckers like you who think being born rich is a skill. Most of Trump’s busiensses have negative cash flows. But you think he is a business master mind. All I see are bankrupties and business stocks inflated by foreign nationals and maga hats looking to win favor with the president of the united states. He grifts American tax payers to funnel your tax dollars to his personal businesses and accepts foreign funds to his personal busienss and maga nutters think this isn’t griffting but good busienss? You have been conned.
But you be you.
To be against Tariffs is to be for China. To be for China is to be for slave labor. Therefore, Chris supports slave labor. Yes, their stuff is cheaper, because it is done with forced labor, with no regard for pollution, and with no regard for safety of those making or those consuming the products. Awesome stance, bro.
Excellent point don
I am not against Tariffs. Tariffs are to be used strategically to counter unfair trade practices of another country from harming the US economy. Across the board tariffs however are a bully tactic that really will only increase costs or consumers.
I prefer the approach Biden were we limit access to strategic technology and subsidize the development of US based manufacturing to replace reliance on countries at risk to China or things like computer chips.
Real change requires diplomacy. I believe Trump clearly lacks the ability to work with other world leaders as he has shown will his bully approach to Columbia. Being a world leader is hard work and requires tact and forward thinking that I believe Trump lacks. So far his foreign policy is a one-trick pony of using tariffs (which we pay as the importer of these goods) as his bully stick. A true embarrassment in leadership.
All I know is that Colombia (with 2 Os Chris) caved to the pressure and now the criminals are going back to their home country. Seems like the tactic works just fine and worked quickly and efficiently. We just have to be ready to back it up if anyone thinks Trump is bluffing. (He’s not.)
Chrissy’s English is that of a ten year old child – because he has the mentality and maturity of a ten year old child.
This time it worked. Sure. Columbia is a small play in global economy compared to Canada and China who Trump is also attempting to threaten with his bully stick.
Let’s also not forget the morons in the conservstive party submitting bills to eliminate income tax to replace with tariffs so yet again middle class and lower income Americans pay higher percentage of taxes than the wealthy because they don’t care about the average American.
And now Canada and Mexico have fallen in line. Looks like Chris was wrong again everyone, and still can’t spell Colombia, even after he was corrected. Shocking, I know.
Thank you for pointing this out .we had 4 years of the Biden administration how about giving this next Trump Administration a chance. Seems like they already found lots of corruption .
Austin where I came from we always said someone like Chris has (deleted) for brains
In Britain he’d be called a “Barclays Banker” (Cockney rhyming slang), or just a wanker.
Classic worthless conservative response. Yawn.
Worthless hackneyed leftist letter.
Yet again Austin fails to add any context to back up his childish insults. Typical conservative rant.
Four words do not constitute a rant, Einstein. Even your English is sophomoric.
“Conservatives love Big Business who do NOT have the interests of Americans in mind as they make business decisions.”
Seriously?
“Rightly, businesses focus is on profits and returns on their investments.”
It’s called Capitalism, the basis for the AMERICAN way of life.
“The role of Government is to keep the profit focus in balance with American interests.”
Here is where what I consider your ignorance showing itself. I defy you to show me where in ANY of our Founding Documents “The role of Government is to keep the profit focus in balance with American interests.” That sounds more like a socialist/communist concept. (And what kind of person follows to that concept?)
Before you start, I want to point out the 10th Amendment combined with the apathy of the American people and the State governments by allowing the Federal government to do what they do for whoever they want. (And don’t give us that “I work for the PEOPLE” crap) That along with both the House of REPRESENTATIVES and the Senate appearing to forget who they are and who they are represent, WHO THEY WORK FOR.
We the People, Republican, Democrat, Independent, Conservative, Liberal need to remind these ‘professional politicians’ WE are THEIR boss’ They work for US, not the other way around.
So does Alan support companies dumping toxic waste in rivers because it helps profits versus disposing via govern!ent regulations? Does Alan support companies not offering health insurance to employees who work full time hours so the boss can buy a new vacation home in the mountains? Does Alan support unsafe working conditions in the coal mines because it it would hurt profits to fix long standing issues in the mine or worse if the mine has to stop operating to fix the issues?
These are all things that happened without government regulation. Along with hundreds of other ways big business took advantage of workers and the environment!ent in the name of profits. If THAT is what you think would make America great again, you are a fool. But THAT is what Trump and the conservatives taking the money from big business want.
I suggest Alan read the commerce clause of the US constitution that grants Congress the power to regulate commerce as well as numerous Supreme court precedents.on the subject.
But you be you.