Question: For decades, Congress has turned its back on several proposals to use competition to force down monopolistic drug prices. The pharmaceutical industry is spending tens of millions of dollars this year alone to assure that Congress does not act. Will you buck the drug companies, and are you taking their money?
Question: Would you seek to repeal the law that lets mining companies stake claims to multiple twenty-acre tracts of federal land in the West, pay the government $100 a year per tract, become owners for between $2.50 and $5 an acre, extract billions of dollars worth of gold and other "hardrock" minerals, and yet share none of the profits with the taxpayers?
Question: The federal government doles out more than $125 billion a year to politically-wired corporations and even entire industries--as much money as it collects in income tax from 60 million individuals and families. This is corporate welfare as we know it. Will you try to end it?
Question: Do you accept Dr.Koop's evidence of the addictiveness of cigarettes, and if you don't, what scientific evidence supports you? Do you or will you take tobacco money? If you do or will, how would you define the moral difference between taking money from an industry that gives millions of dollars annually to politicians who thwart efforts to restrain its marketing of a legal addictive product, as opposed to taking money from an industry that corrupts officials who could thwart its marketing of an illegal addictive product?
Taken from Mort Mintz' series of articles at www.tompaine.com
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Question: For decades, Congress has turned its back on several proposals to use competition to force down monopolistic drug prices. The pharmaceutical industry is spending tens of millions of dollars this year alone to assure that Congress does not act. Will you buck the drug companies, and are you taking their money? Question: Would you seek to repeal the law that lets mining companies stake claims to multiple twenty-acre tracts of federal land in the West, pay the government $100 a year per tract, become owners for between $2.50 and $5 an acre, extract billions of dollars worth of gold and other "hardrock" minerals, and yet share none of the profits with the taxpayers? Question: The federal government doles out more than $125 billion a year to politically-wired corporations and even entire industries--as much money as it collects in income tax from 60 million individuals and families. This is corporate welfare as we know it. Will you try to end it? Question: Do you accept Dr.Koop's evidence of the addictiveness of cigarettes, and if you don't, what scientific evidence supports you? Do you or will you take tobacco money? If you do or will, how would you define the moral difference between taking money from an industry that gives millions of dollars annually to politicians who thwart efforts to restrain its marketing of a legal addictive product, as opposed to taking money from an industry that corrupts officials who could thwart its marketing of an illegal addictive product? Taken from Mort Mintz' series of articles at www.tompaine.com