.... Year over year layoff of scientist, manufacturing workers and sales? Dodging US taxes over seas Raising the prices of our products 9% every 6 months Hundreds of medicines priced beyond the reach of the very patients they are meant to treat ... We have lost our way
You got it. How do you respect a company like Pfizer who is no longer an American company by choice and raises prices and dodges taxes? It's not like the company was in trouble and it had to do these things. It's just greed and it's not good and it must be stopped.
FYI. Apple Computer uses the same financial arrangement for its cash. ALL of Apple products are manufactured in China. Was there not a day of national morning when Uncle Steve died 2011? Do we not love Apple products more than homes, cars and pets? Its a global globe these days.
and Apple's Tim Cook was questioned by congress for tax evasion http://www.theverge.com/2015/12/18/10617146/tim-cook-calls-tax-evasion-total-political-crap
So Tim Cook mentioned tax flaws in the US code. Congress did what to deal with it? Again, nothing. Easy to shame. Difficult to govern.
agreed, pfizer says one thing and does another. and we wonder why society does not respect us... this company sucks.
Good for Ian! It's his JOB to increase shareholder value any way he can! It's all of our jobs to pay as few taxes as we possibly can! Why give our hard earned money to a completely corrupt government (democrats & republicans alike). The U.S. has THE highest corporate tax rate in the entire world! So you want to keep giving your money to a government that is out of control with spending? Did any of you spend 1 day in any type of economics class? Geez!
Spare us the Conservative BS. No corporation pays the actual corporate tax rate of 35%. Pfizer averages about 24% and it would be less if their accountants weren't so painfully conservative. Pfizer has over $40 billion sitting in banks but they can't pay a rate of tax that's close to what I pay????? I think Congress should cancel the sweetheart deal Pfizer got to prevent Medicare from negotiating prices of our products. Oh wait, we own Congress. We want Medicare to spend billions more than it needs to. It's a good example of that out of control spending - caused by corporate America!!!!!!!
My definition of society is the several blocks that occupy lower manhattan. It's all I've really cared about. Good thing I'm short, otherwise I would have worn holes in the knees of my suit pants. Ian
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