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AnnexBlaster t1_jaqddst wrote

If the government wants to accelerate research it has to tax more. Its also getting less taxes from biotech/pharm companies because they cant make profit.

In order to bridge this gap the government needs to make money from somewhere (taxes) or no research will be funded.

The US government cannot print money forever without raising taxes.

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va_str t1_jaqfbo6 wrote

I work in cancer research in the UK, and ALL our money is coming from the government. Where there's a will and relevant priorities, there's a way. That's really the crucial part, because governments have plenty of money to spend. Where they spend it is the real question, not how to raise more.

That said, even just moving the extracted profit into taxes instead would yield a substantial improvement. People make money off of this. Stop that and move the money back into research.

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