March 16, 2022

A thief never returns to the scene of the crime, the saying goes. But like many of the rules, laws and regulations that apply to typical Americans, this is an adage from which Washington politicians find themselves gleefully exempt. For if our national trove of scoundrels rousting about in the halls of Congress could not continually pilfer the hard-earned money of the American people, how could they possibly fill their days?

Ahead of the midterms and following a string of legislative defeats, Democrats in Washington remain as determined as ever to crack open the safe, rallying around a scaled-down spending package still bursting at the seams with more than a trillion dollars in grift. Among their targets once again are Americans’ access to prescription drugs and the manufacturers who bring them to market. Desperate to deliver on this issue, President Biden intensified his call during the State of the Union address for his party’s leaders to accelerate the passage of their plan to reduce drug costs through ham-fisted price controls.

What Biden and company won’t confess is that their proposal to “lower drug costs” for patients is merely a ruse to abscond with upward of $160 billion they plan to use to offset the costs of a slew of other policies unrelated to healthcare. They are also burying the dire consequences of this effort, a reduction of more than $660 billion in medical research and development. This in itself should be deeply troubling to every American.

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