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To: TimF who wrote (263514)	5/7/2008 2:13:09 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

You fail to understand that if Walmart is your only source for staples, you have little choice but to shop there. When other stores are put out of business, Walmart is an effective monopoly. If you bothered to move to a tax haven or find a better tax preparer, you wouldn't be as hot and bothered by taxes as you appear to be. You have plenty of choices and you choose to stay where you are and gripe about taxes. No, providing free samples is advertising and they may or may not benefit anyone. In fact, many drugs hurt people and sometimes kill them. At any rate, these are not full courses of drugs for poor people, they are free samples for doctors to give to patients in the hopes of developing a source of future income from said patient. I guess you aren't in business. They are talking about what they are talking about. There are many costs for bringing a new drug to market including distribution. So what? You are still wrong. No, it has been pointed out that drugs such as antibiotics are not coming to market because it is more profitable to buy politicians, try and extend patents or ply doctors with perks and freebies. The profit motive PREVENTS much needed new drugs from being developed. You are still wrong.