6ftstick wrote: ↑Thu Apr 25, 2019 2:23 pm
So the NIH research funding from 2010—2016 was 100 billion?
Pfizer paid 14.5 billion in federal taxes in 2017. Merck paid 5.5 billion. Johnson and Johnson paid 13.6 billion in federal taxes. So the government had an ROI of 31 Billion in just one year from just 3 Pharmaceutical companies.
First of, yet again, you show you're just fine with socialism. So are all the viewers of FoxNation....half of them viewing Fox using Federally subsidized cable/internet connections. You just don't want to admit that our entire economy is heavily socialized.
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And for heaven's sake, that's not the ROI. This is Republican math in a nutshell.
You left out the entire reason we collect taxes. You know: the expenses. Remember those? Or do you think that the money we need for soldiers, aircraft carriers, roads and bridges falls from the sky?
And we wonder why Republicans keep outspending the Democrats. Look no further. Adding and subtracting is too much to ask.
If you really want an
actual ROI? We should get a piece of each patent that is obtained using Federal Funding of any kind. We don't. Why? Because we don't hold our Congressmen to account, regardless of party. So they give it away.