US President Donald Trump announced a 100% tariff on imported generic pharmaceutical drugs on Tuesday. The tariff, which aims to bolster US pharmaceutical production, is set to go into effect in August 2028.
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30 Comments
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca · 42 pts · 46d
Lol! He just keeps making everything more expensive. Surely his base is starting to figure that out by now?
Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 36 pts · 46d
No they are not
ToastedRavioli@midwest.social · 11 pts · 46d
Could somebody please stop J’Biden
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 46d
lololno.
Statick@feddit.online · 5 pts · 45d
A friends mother blames Biden for losing her SNAP benefits earlier this year.
We're doomed.
GraniteM@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 45d
bigbangdangler@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 45d
Too much credit. It's like waiting for a monkey with a typewriter to come up with the next great novel.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 46d
I doubt this will survive two years and actually go into effect. I'm honesty surprised it's not another 'effective immediately' late night truthsocial ramble - rewritten into an executive order.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 45d
Can I get off this ride? I'm fucking exhausted. Just like, gimme a week. One fucking week of him not doing something cartoonishly evil.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 3 pts · 45d
The stupid part here is even with a 1000% tariff, the generics are probably cheaper than US made drugs.
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 22 pts · 46d
Wow so I guess they want my dog’s cough to come back full force.
My dog requires a fluticasone inhaler for his cough. Our vet recommended we order the inhalers from CanadaPharmacy, and the specific ones we got actually shipped from New Zealand. Cost about a third of what it would here without insurance.
(So even with 100% tariffs, still cheaper to import. But holy shit fuck DJT.)
CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 45d
Yeah, my cat also needs the same inhalers, which I get overseas from Vanuatu. I order three at once which would be nearly $700(!) in the US. Instead, I pay $150. I wonder which country I'd buy them from even with 100% tariffs?
Diaper Don doesn't even know how expensive drugs are for the average person in the US.
NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io · 19 pts · 46d
By killing Americans, don't forget that part. That said on one hand, if the US left and center-left get off their asses it should be gone by January 2029. But on the other hand, I have exactly zero faith that the US left and center-left will get off their asses.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 3 pts · 45d
The more citizens one helps die of natural causes, the less citizens will be live-streamed genocided.
HubertManne@piefed.social · 1 pts · 45d
the other reply you got to this is why I call myself a centerist. ugh.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 45d
That's an over-simplistic take. The left in the US has no real power and has to fight both the Dems and the Republicans that both serve the same masters. The only difference between them is that one isn't overtly evil.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 0 pts · 45d
Learned helplessness/weaponized incompetence
leavemealone@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 46d
Even with 100% tariffs, in a lot of cases, it would still be worth it...
ulkesh@piefed.social · 11 pts · 46d
What a complete evil fucktard. Why won’t he just have that inevitable heart attack and end this?
wildcardology@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 45d
A heart attack is too good for him. I want a stroke where he's just a vegetable on a bed.
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app · 10 pts · 46d
Yes, the ailing pharmaceutical companies, the ones who REALLY need it.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 45d
Pedolf must be very confident that he will be able to successfully rig the midterms given he's not backing away from doing everything he can to make anyone non-MAGA hate his guts.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social · 5 pts · 45d
At this point it feels like a good portion of MAGA may be hating him too. Especially fucking with medicines like this.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 45d
He only needs those chucklekfucks to hate him less than they hate whatever the right wing press tells them to.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 45d
Continuing his crusade to make healthcare more affordable for everyday Americans by making it cost more.
shani66@ani.social · 8 pts · 45d
So, do you guys think his SS is deliberately leaving holes in his security yet?
MrSulu@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 45d
Pals = richer US population = fucked.
Corvidae@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 45d
At the same time the US military is having a high injury rate in Trump's war of choice and the administration has approached congress for more military funding, which by the way is having some resistance from those communist democrats, Trump decides it's time to raise tariffs on imported generic drugs, saying publicly it's to lower drug prices. Uh huh. Trump's telling congress, see what I can do?
venusaur@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 46d
Wonder if Israel gets exemption to that
Maeve@kbin.earth · 1 pts · 45d
At least until they're no longer useful or win the thunder dome.