Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?

I watched that get dramatically worse after the Citizens United decision, when wealthy special interests could spend unlimited amounts of money in politics.

This corrupted Tax Code lets billionaires pay an average tax rate of just 8.2 percent, less than half the rate of a typical teacher or firefighter.

Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward.

Nobody is blowing the whistle on the initial price being a phony, because the PBMs... are actually in on the economics of the transaction.

Nobody is blowing the whistle on the initial price being a phony, because the PBMs... are actually in on the economics of the transaction.

The danger is that a pharmacy benefit manager... can become just a toll taker, or just a self-dealer.

The danger is that a pharmacy benefit manager... can become just a toll taker, or just a self-dealer.

Like public health? Like people not dying of cigarette-caused cancer?

Like public health? Like people not dying of cigarette-caused cancer?

A great of this ozone does not originate in Rhode Island.

Since Citizens United, we have made really no bipartisan progress on any significant piece of climate legislation.

It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included in the price of the product.

I see the malevolent force of the fossil fuel industry through its politics and through its dark money everywhere.

Since Citizens United, we have made really no bipartisan progress on any significant piece of climate legislation.

I can recall, to your point, driving into work and on drivetime radio hearing the local announcement that today was a bad air day in Rhode Island.

It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included in the price of the product.

The danger is that a pharmacy benefit manager... can become just a toll taker, or just a self-dealer.

A great of this ozone does not originate in Rhode Island.

I can recall, to your point, driving into work and on drivetime radio hearing the local announcement that today was a bad air day in Rhode Island.

So a good Good Neighbor Rule will pay huge dividends.

So a good Good Neighbor Rule will pay huge dividends.

I see the malevolent force of the fossil fuel industry through its politics and through its dark money everywhere.

I can recall, to your point, driving into work and on drivetime radio hearing the local announcement that today was a bad air day in Rhode Island.

The cause, which is abundant fossil fuel money pouring into politics to buy compliance with their narrative.