To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Repeal Corrupt $500 Million Giveaway to Amgen Corporation at Taxpayer Expense!
Crony Capitalism is a pestilence that infects both major U.S. parties.
The so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that was negotiated by the White House and the GOP contains a $500 million payoff to biotech company Amgen that was snuck in at the last minute, effectively reducing Amgen’s record U.S. fine of $762 million in criminal and civil penalties by two thirds, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
We demand repeal of the paragraph that made this shameless giveaway to Amgen possible, a clearly corrupt payoff to a corporate wrongdoer.
There can be no excuse for not going after this one!
The so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that was negotiated by the White House and the GOP contains a $500 million payoff to biotech company Amgen that was snuck in at the last minute, effectively reducing Amgen’s record U.S. fine of $762 million in criminal and civil penalties by two thirds, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
We demand repeal of the paragraph that made this shameless giveaway to Amgen possible, a clearly corrupt payoff to a corporate wrongdoer.
There can be no excuse for not going after this one!
Why is this important?
Crony Capitalism is a pestilence that infects both major U.S. parties.
Here’s a revealing case in point, involving the so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that was negotiated by the White House and the GOP, and showing how a $500 million payoff to biotech company Amgen was snuck in at the last minute, effectively reducing Amgen’s record U.S. fine of $762 million in criminal and civil penalties by two thirds, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
See http://billmoyers.com/segment/u-s-rep-peter-welch-on-amgen%e2%80%99s-sweet-senate-deal/
In this exposé of political “skullduggery” (to use Bill Moyers’s term), Moyers reveals how a New York Times investigative report (published two days before the inauguration) traced the sell-out actions of Republican Mitch McConnell, Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Orrin Hatch, “a trio of perpetrators, who treat the U.S. Treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate America,” according to Moyers.
We demand repeal of the paragraph that made this shameless giveaway to Amgen possible. Moyers’s discussion with House Democratic Representative Peter Welch suggests that even Tea Party GOPers might join in with other hoodwinked electeds to repeal this clearly corrupt payoff to a corporate wrongdoer.
This is well worth viewing and acting upon to repeal what discredits our government and both houses at the highest levels.
There can be no excuse for not going after this one!
Here’s a revealing case in point, involving the so-called “fiscal cliff deal” that was negotiated by the White House and the GOP, and showing how a $500 million payoff to biotech company Amgen was snuck in at the last minute, effectively reducing Amgen’s record U.S. fine of $762 million in criminal and civil penalties by two thirds, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.
See http://billmoyers.com/segment/u-s-rep-peter-welch-on-amgen%e2%80%99s-sweet-senate-deal/
In this exposé of political “skullduggery” (to use Bill Moyers’s term), Moyers reveals how a New York Times investigative report (published two days before the inauguration) traced the sell-out actions of Republican Mitch McConnell, Democrat Max Baucus and Republican Orrin Hatch, “a trio of perpetrators, who treat the U.S. Treasury as if it were a cash-and-carry annex of corporate America,” according to Moyers.
We demand repeal of the paragraph that made this shameless giveaway to Amgen possible. Moyers’s discussion with House Democratic Representative Peter Welch suggests that even Tea Party GOPers might join in with other hoodwinked electeds to repeal this clearly corrupt payoff to a corporate wrongdoer.
This is well worth viewing and acting upon to repeal what discredits our government and both houses at the highest levels.
There can be no excuse for not going after this one!