Current Events > Pfizer makes billions from Covid vaccine and hides profit in tax haven

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 11:35:37 AM
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Omnislasher
05/15/21 11:39:11 AM
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Bokothechoco2
05/15/21 11:39:31 AM
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All profits from any large company ever.
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AteIierRyza3462
05/15/21 11:40:18 AM
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I wonder how many other things were overlooked

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Unsugarized_Foo
05/15/21 11:45:17 AM
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Its tax optimization and you can tell your Nana and Pappy they're welcome for not suffocating to death from inflammation

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 11:49:26 AM
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Unsugarized_Foo posted...
Its tax optimization and you can tell your Nana and Pappy they're welcome for not suffocating to death from inflammation

The irony is pfizer bought biontech. The reddit thread had a big argument about this cause of how taxes went into making the vaccine and such.
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lightwarrior78
05/15/21 11:59:31 AM
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And people wonder why "free" government health care isn't trusted. It just gives a whole new industry to milk for government contract profits with little concern on efficient tax spending.

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:03:13 PM
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lightwarrior78 posted...
And people wonder why "free" government health care isn't trusted. It just gives a whole new industry to milk for government contract profits with little concern on efficient tax spending.

What?
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Mezcla
05/15/21 12:04:07 PM
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*literally saves the planet from a deadly disease*
"BuT DiD yOu PaY YoUR TAxEs??!????"

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:05:40 PM
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Mezcla posted...
*literally saves the planet from a deadly disease*
"BuT DiD yOu PaY YoUR TAxEs??!????"

Holy shit whiteknighting megacorps now.

And there is more than just pfizer who made vaccines who didn't even make them but monoplized another company who did

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Omnislasher
05/15/21 12:06:14 PM
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Mezcla posted...
*literally saves the planet from a deadly disease*
"BuT DiD yOu PaY YoUR TAxEs??!????"
government subsidy (ie. your fucking money if you're american) developed those vaccines
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Mezcla
05/15/21 12:12:07 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Holy shit whiteknighting megacorps now.
lmao i dont really care bro im joking.

pay your taxes folks.

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IShall_Run_Amok
05/15/21 12:14:58 PM
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Capitalism working as intended.

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Xavier_On_High
05/15/21 12:16:29 PM
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Flamer_Blue
05/15/21 12:19:08 PM
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Well, I am NOT trying to be a corporate simp but without them, we wouldn't have vaccines.
This argument about stronger tax codes and companies exploiting them loopholes has been there since ever and there has never been any intention of fixing it.

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:19:43 PM
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Flamer_Blue posted...
but without them, we wouldn't have vaccines.

How so
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Unsugarized_Foo
05/15/21 12:20:52 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
The irony is pfizer bought biontech. The reddit thread had a big argument about this cause of how taxes went into making the vaccine and such.

That sounds interesting. I'll see if I can find it

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Omnislasher
05/15/21 12:30:03 PM
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Flamer_Blue posted...
Well, I am trying to be a corporate simp but without them, we wouldn't have vaccines.
i wonder how Cuba managed to develop five vaccines....
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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:41:32 PM
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Omnislasher posted...
i wonder how Cuba managed to develop five vaccines....

Woah!
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ScazarMeltex
05/15/21 12:42:41 PM
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Mezcla posted...
*literally saves the planet from a deadly disease*
"BuT DiD yOu PaY YoUR TAxEs??!????"
You mean with the vaccine that they made with research funded by tax dollars? Jesus Christ man you are supposed to lick the boot not fucking deepthroat it.

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CADE FOSTER
05/15/21 12:43:40 PM
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Apple stashes its trillions in the island of jersey
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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:46:04 PM
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ScazarMeltex posted...
You mean with the vaccine that they made with research funded by tax dollars? Jesus Christ man you are supposed to lick the boot not fucking deepthroat it.

Corps have brainwashed most the population.

Did people applaud Bill Gates for saying vaccines should not lift their patents?
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soulunison2
05/15/21 12:47:39 PM
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Virtue signaling at its finest TC, bravo
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Flamer_Blue
05/15/21 12:48:38 PM
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Omnislasher posted...
i wonder how Cuba managed to develop five vaccines....
I already edited my comment.
Anyways, I meant to say I was NOT trying to be a corporate simp but there is some value on those companies developing those vaccines.
It was probably a government contest in which the company who pitched the best idea with the fastest result won the government fund.
This happens in the military a LOT and I don't see people talking crap about McDonnell or Lockheed.
And I am pretty sure they offshore their huge profits too.

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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:49:41 PM
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CHM_Punk posted...
A Manhattan based company is distributing vaccines for free that will save billions of lives, and all TC can focus on is that they evaded taxes. What a damn crybaby.

Yall special
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krazychao5
05/15/21 12:51:21 PM
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yeah that's bullshit. we paid for their shit so their profits should be taxed and given back.

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Broseph_Stalin
05/15/21 12:52:55 PM
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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 12:54:03 PM
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soulunison2 posted...
Virtue signaling at its finest TC, bravo

Wtf does this have to do with virtue?

Tax dollars made the vaccines and another company profitted massively from tax funded vaccines

Does it not seem logical they should flow a good percent of those profits back into the tax dollars that gave us and them this vaccine?

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wackyteen
05/15/21 12:55:04 PM
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Even if they used legal tax loopholes, they should be brought to justice.

Wanna be a CEO? Be ready to face brutal fucking justice for your actions as CEO

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Broseph_Stalin
05/15/21 12:59:22 PM
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Also the amount of people who don't realize corporations can't pay taxes and that the corporate tax is largely regressive is insane.
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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 1:01:22 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
Also the amount of people who don't realize corporations can't pay taxes and that the corporate tax is largely regressive is insane.

Please educate us
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soulunison2
05/15/21 1:09:50 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Wtf does this have to do with virtue?

Tax dollars made the vaccines and another company profitted massively from tax funded vaccines

Does it not seem logical they should flow a good percent of those profits back into the tax dollars that gave us and them this vaccine?

@soulunison2

yes but you legit dont care about that youre trying to push some anti vaxx narratives lmao

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JBaLLEN66
05/15/21 1:11:25 PM
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typical hypocrisy from the left lol

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Broseph_Stalin
05/15/21 1:12:41 PM
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WingsOfGood posted...
Please educate us

You can tax just about anything, but only people can actually pay taxes. The manner in which the tax burden is divided between buyers and sellers is called the tax incidence or tax burden.

When Trump raised tariffs on Chinese goods, he wasn't actually "taxing China". A country can't pay taxes. The Americans who buy those goods pay that tax.

If a city introduces a tax on sugary drinks the people who buy those drinks pay the tax.

You can tax corporate income but a corporation doesn't bear the burden of that tax, it's not a person.
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WingsOfGood
05/15/21 1:13:18 PM
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soulunison2 posted...
yes but you legit dont care about that youre trying to push some anti vaxx narratives lmao

Wtf
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SSJPurple
05/15/21 1:28:31 PM
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Can we worry about this after COVID is under control instead of trying to cancel the people making the vaccine during a pandemic

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Bleuets
05/15/21 1:30:26 PM
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SSJPurple posted...
Can we worry about this after COVID is under control instead of trying to cancel the people making the vaccine during a pandemic

No this needs to be addressed now and not swept under the rug. Its great that they are making the vaccine , but if this is true they need to be brought to justice.
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Broseph_Stalin
05/15/21 1:31:07 PM
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SSJPurple posted...
Can we worry about this after COVID is under control instead of trying to cancel the people making the vaccine during a pandemic

NO! Earning $8.74 for a life saving vaccine is GREED!
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SSJPurple
05/15/21 1:32:58 PM
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Bleuets posted...
No this needs to be addressed now and not swept under the rug. Its great that they are making the vaccine , but if this is true they need to be brought to justice.

Yes they do, but lets get this shit under control first lol

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Flamer_Blue
05/15/21 1:34:12 PM
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SSJPurple posted...
Can we worry about this after COVID is under control instead of trying to cancel the people making the vaccine during a pandemic
CE gives me my daily dose of reasoning on why I am a centrist.
Definitely don't click with the notion of receiving everything for free from the left, nor have that victim complex of the right.

EDIT: NVM, I seem to be rambling onto different things again.

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JaiCSC
05/15/21 1:38:13 PM
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A pharmaceutical company prioritising profit over healthcare and taking questionable and morally dubious avenues to keep said profits... Alert the media.

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krazychao5
05/15/21 6:10:06 PM
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Broseph_Stalin posted...
You can tax corporate income but a corporation doesn't bear the burden of that tax, it's not a person.
that's wrong. what experience do you even have with taxes?

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Payzmaykr
05/15/21 6:12:38 PM
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Eh, well they gave it to me for free, so its no concern to me if they made a profit. Its a nice change of pace from them selling legal heroin to people, though.
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nexigrams
05/15/21 9:54:08 PM
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Holy shit can you imagine what the IRS would do to me if I didn't pay my measly tax bill? They'd stake me out, garnish my wages, tank my credit score (making it impossible to find a job/home), repossess anything of miniscule value in order to get their cut. And rightfully so, because their cut is literally what society is built from. If I didn't pay my taxes they would raze my entire life and burn it to the ground, all over a couple hundred bucks.

Pieter doesn't pay $3 billion in taxes, though, and everyone is falling over themselves in order to excuse it, praise it even, lol. We've gone far beyond being our own oppressors at this point, it is astonishing the lengths we go to keep ourselves down.

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gamer167
05/15/21 10:03:56 PM
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Well of course, you think they actually care about anything but money? Lol, hell naw.
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FL81
05/15/21 10:19:38 PM
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Taxation is theft

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Dark_SilverX
05/15/21 10:30:40 PM
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That is pretty cool. Glad they are racking in dough. They have to eat like every one else.

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IShall_Run_Amok
05/15/21 10:56:00 PM
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FL81 posted...
Taxation is theft
Stealing from capitalists is not only justified, but a moral imperative.

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WingsOfGood
05/16/21 3:03:52 AM
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SSJPurple posted...
Can we worry about this after COVID is under control instead of trying to cancel the people making the vaccine during a pandemic

Did they give these vaccines to India?

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