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If you own a business, the leftists in Congress are coming after you. The only thing standing in their way is the U.S. Constitution.
Whether you own a mom-and-pop diner, an auto repair shop or shares in a multinational corporation, your property is at risk.
The Constitution’s takings clause was designed to protect us from government grabbing our property without paying fairly for it. But last year, when Democrats controlled both houses of Congress, they rammed through the Inflation Reduction Act, boasting that it would enable Medicare to “negotiate” lower prices for medications for seniors.
“Negotiate” is a lie. Under the new law, government can strong-arm companies to sell their most popular medications at a price Uncle Sam dictates, or be taxed out of existence in a matter of weeks. On June 6, the pharmaceutical giant Merck sued, claiming the law violates its constitutional rights.
Amen. This lawsuit is a red flag for everyone in America who owns anything or hopes to.
The actual language of the law is breathtakingly coercive, but let’s face it, most members of Congress don’t bother to read bills before voting on them.
The law says that any company that refuses to sell at the government’s price will be hit with a tax that starts at 186% of the drug’s revenues on Day 1 and is hiked daily until it reaches a ruinous 1,900% of revenues — not just from government sales but all sales. That would mean hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes per day.
The company has no escape. Contrast this coercion with price controls in socialist-leaning European countries, where drug companies can decline to sell at the government price.
Merck explains that it “will be legally compelled to sell its most valuable products for a fraction of their value, on pain of yet more draconian penalties. This is not ‘negotiation.’ It is tantamount to extortion.”
The law also gags the company from disclosing what Medicare officials say about price “negotiations” behind closed doors. Worse, the law requires the company to publicly call the price rammed down its throat “fair.”
Is this even America? Congress limits free speech and requires companies to state things they don’t believe.
Merck’s lawsuit objects, “Our Constitution does not countenance compelled speech in service of state propaganda.”
Congress needs a refresher course on the Constitution. The Fifth Amendment bars the government from taking your property without just compensation. And the First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing you to say something against your will. These are the bases of Merck’s lawsuit.
The law being challenged is exactly what you’d find in George Orwell’s “1984,” a novel depicting socialist despotism. The government dictates the price for your product but calls it a “negotiation.” If you refuse, your business is taxed to death overnight. You are gagged from disclosing what is happening and forced to declare the price “fair.”
If Merck’s lawsuit fails, who are the next victims? Auto makers could be forced to sell cars for the federal fleet for $10,000 a piece instead of a fair price. What about bed sheets for the Army, airplane parts for the Air Force or restaurant meals for government employees?
Merck’s lawsuit raises only constitutional issues, but Americans also need to know that price controls on pharmaceuticals could be dangerous to their health. In countries that cap prices, patients have reduced access to new drugs. Patients in France get only half the new treatments that U.S. patients get, according to University of Chicago economist Tomas Philipson.
Last week, the American Society of Clinical Oncology announced a treatment — osimertinib — that improves survival by 51% for lung cancer patients who have had surgery and face a recurrence. As a survivor myself, I cut out the article and put it in my desk drawer, hoping I won’t need it but glad it’s a possibility.
Many politicians think vilifying drug companies is good politics. They ignore the devastating impact of price controls on the pipeline for future cures.
This is a legitimate policy debate. But obeying the Constitution is not optional. Congress members swear an oath to it.
Merck’s lawsuit is headed to the Supreme Court.
Tell Biden and leftist lawmakers to read the 4,543 words in the Constitution and honor them.
Clearly an undisguised violation of the takings clause, so the law should be null and void. Democrats don’t bother to hide their tyrannical nature any more. They just throw it out thereto see what might stick in our corrupt system.
Of all the Amendments in the U.S. Constitution the 2nd has become the most violated by the Democrats always supporting more useless Gun Control and showing off for the fake news shows and the Press and Bidens about the U.S. Constitution not being absolute should be a reminder of how Globalists wants to replace the Constitution with various UN Treaties
The Deep state, elites and oligarchs, promote a Godless secular society, without principles, without law and order, without the Constitution which our founding fathers knew was the blueprint for a balanced, lawful, free and civil society. God is in their way, as well as people who uphold liberty, freedom, and a lawful balanced government. You see without out law and order, fairness, and Godly principles, they can justify, and do whatever they want and never be held accountable, or so they think, but a day of reckoning is coming.
“The Constitution is not a living organism,” said SCJ Antonin Scalia, “It’s a legal document, and it says what it says and doesn’t say what it doesn’t say”
The US Constitution is not ‘fluid’. If we don’t like the Amendments, then change them. Do not skew the meaning to satisfy an agenda.
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JOE BIDEN IS ONLY BARACK OBAMA’S PATH TO A THIRD TERM FOR LIFE WHERE HE AND SOROS WILL CREATE A MUSLIM STYLE DICTATORSHIP.
BARACK OBAMA DESTROYED THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS USING HIS BANKSTERS AND LA RAZA/UNIDOUS. NOW HE ONLY NEEDS TO FINISH OFF THE BORDER, HAND AMNESTY TO 50 MILLION MEX FLAG WAVERS AND END FREE SPEECH. HE’S ON HIS WAY!
Barack Obama Pushes ‘Digital Fingerprints’ to Fight ‘Misinformation’
Barack Obama, who was instrumental in fueling the media’s “misinformation” narrative before he left office, has a new buzzword — “digital fingerprints.”
The former Democrat president wants the origin of digital information such as photos and videos to be clearly traced, to fight the spread of deepfakes.
“That technology’s here now,” said Obama in a discussion with his former advisor David Axelrod on the latter’s CNN podcast. “So, most immediately we’re going to have all the problems we had with misinformation before, [but] this next election cycle will be worse.”
Sadly we march toward socialist medicine. Note what’s happening in Britain now. Should we continue on this path, R&D and all of the future benefits of medical advances will be lost. This is not an acceptable route for America.
Yet another assault by the govt on the free enterprise system. Almost always disguised as in the people’s interest it is nothing more than the totalitarian exercise of usurpation. Like any tyrant, if they can’t control it they destroy it. Sadly, far too many Americans buy the lie because they are not directly affected by it. The devil is in the details and who has time for that? It’s exactly what the politicians depend on as they conspire to control everything. It’s abuse of power and almost all of them see nothing wrong with that.
Beyond unconscionable.
The world has distinctly unraveled since the abolition of dueling.
Finally, a crucial move against unchecked abuse of government power. For all the complaints about the Democrat’s manipulation of government departments and law enforcement against their political opponents, they are still free to violate their oath of office without penalizing consequences. When the liar-in-chief acted for gun bans, he should be penalize for violating the Constitution. We will have to wait and see what the Supreme Court verdict will be in this lawsuit against an out of control government.