Everybody wants a level playing field until their bottom line is affected.
I'm just gonna comment on what I know: almost the whole of the non-US world including my own country piggybacks on US-funded and US-led medical drug research for the benefit of their own citizens. And does not pay market price. US pharma manufacturers take all the risks including the majority of research that does not pan out, and of course having to jump the idiotic, pathetic, unscientific, stupid, moronic, ill-conceived, fantastical, hemidemisemiwitted FDA high-fecally-packed-colon-inspired regulatory hoops... uh, where was I... sorry, I digressed.
The fact that some of the pharma companies egregiously rip off patients does not change the other relevant facts. Also - insurers are the problem waaaaaay more than drug manufacturers, by orders of serious fucking magnitude. Bastards.
Anyway, what I was trying to say is TANSTAAFL (for you Heinlein-readers out there). Tariffs should be equal.
What goes around comes around.
I will not comment on Trump as I am not a US citizen - but were I not a Kiwi I'd be proud to be a national of the second-best country in the world (now don't be hatin' on me now... or do, I wouldn't take it personally).
But I do see he is trying to level the playing field with tariffs.
Since when should it be a bad thing for the leader of a country to look after the interests of his country's nationals first? (Rhetorical question).
/ Rant over
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