Compatriots,
I wanted to make sure you saw Bernie's email yesterday about how we can stop the Big Pharma company Pfizer from dodging out on $35 BILLION in taxes it owes America. Please read Bernie's note below and add your name to help stop Pfizer from dodging $35 billion in taxes.
Email from Senator Bernie Sanders:
I want to tell you about something that encapsulates so much of what is wrong with our economy, our government, and our corrupt political system.
Then I'm going to ask for your help to stop it.
Pfizer is a giant pharmaceutical company based in New York City that has a history of overcharging Americans for prescription drugs. It's in the process of trying to merge with another company located in Ireland.
If the merger is successful, Pfizer would technically become a foreign company, meaning it could dodge around $35 BILLION in corporate taxes here in America.
Enough is enough. Pfizer and other pharmaceutical companies cannot be allowed to evade taxes and rip off American patients who already pay the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs.
What Pfizer is trying to do is known as a "corporate inversion."
In this case, Pfizer, an American company, is merging with a company based abroad.
The result of the merger is a company with an address in another country – even though the majority of shareholders are still based in America.
Pfizer apparently doesn't want to pay the $35 billion in taxes it would owe in America. I don't think that's right.
No matter what, you can bet that Pfizer would continue to overcharge Americans for prescription drugs, too.
Since 2014, the pharmaceutical company has hiked the prices of seven of its top selling drugs by an average of 39 percent.
Pfizer also charges 12 times as much in the U.S. under Medicare for these drugs as it charges in Ireland, where it’s claiming a new address for tax purposes.
All of this is the result of years of weakened tax laws, an abdication of responsibility by American companies to their country, and a corrupt political system that allows it to happen.
And I believe we can stop it.
Thank you for your support.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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To: Paulo Augusto Lacaz
data: 20 de março de 2016 15:22
assunto: Am I still a "fringe" candidate?
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Bernie Sanders for President
Dear Paulo Augusto,
The vast levels of income and wealth inequality that we are seeing today did not come down from the heavens — they came about as a result of policy decisions that work against the interests of the American people. And together, we have the power to move our country in a different direction.
We can achieve health care as a right for all people. We can create decent paying jobs. And we can make sure that every person in this country gets the education they need and desire.
Despite what the corporate media and the political establishment might have you believe, these are not utopian ideas.
But they won't happen unless we stand up and fight back.
This Tuesday, three more states will have their say in this presidential primary and we have the chance to do well in all of them.
Let's show the political establishment that when we stand together, there is nothing we cannot accomplish.
Make a $3 contribution to our campaign today to say you are ready to stand up to the billionaire class and transform America.
Almost 11 months ago when I announced that I would run for president, the corporate media wrote me off as a "fringe candidate."
Well, I think the corporate media would agree that a lot has happened in the past 11 months.
We have won nine states, and came very close in others.
We have received more than 5.7 million individual contributions to our campaign from nearly 2 million people.
And we have hundreds of thousands of volunteers across the country making calls and knocking on doors.
What we are doing is building a movement of people who are prepared to stand up and fight back against the status quo.
The same old, same old establishment ideas are not enough.
That is why I need you to join me in this effort before Arizona, Idaho, and Utah vote on Tuesday.
Add your $3 contribution now to send a message that this country belongs to all of us, and that it's past time our government started working for the people it is elected to serve.
The stakes in this election couldn't be any higher. Either we continue with the status quo, or we come together to shape a brighter future for our kids and our grandkids.
Thank you for your support, Paulo Augusto.
I have always said I cannot do this alone, and I'm glad to have you by my side.
In solidarity,
Bernie Sanders
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