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Re:Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockho... by s1artibartfast on Saturday February 17, 2024 @11:01AM (#39410626)
It seems the prinicpal "R&D incentive" that the parent poster considered was IP/patent law. Im not sure how that baby could be split in an A/B test.

Pharma companies receive very little (relatively) in terms of grants or research funding.

R&D spending can be amortized as a business expense when calculating a tax bill, so I suppose that could be repealed, raising the effective tax rate.

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Re:Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockho... by sudosysgen on Saturday February 17, 2024 @03:33PM (#39413288)
Pharma companies receive easy and extremely subsidized access to research that costs almost a hundred billion every year. They don't need to be the direct recipients of the grant to be the direct benefactors.
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