Off-topic: Where to buy Tazorac (tazarotene)

[keangkong]

I agree, but the current situation is not about tariff's, as I'm ok with paying a 20% tariff fee to get what I'm choosing to order.
The seizing and destroying of non-harmful goods is a new punitive and heavily funded activity that's not about safety. Tariffs were never mentioned in my FDA letter I received this week.

I think what gets confused in people's understanding (not you @keangkong I mean in general) is capitalism, crony capitalism and free market. What most people want to support is free market, they label it capitalism; but what we have operating today is the crony version.

Small businesses are hurt by the high tariff situation because America is never again going to manufacture the goods and materials needed for products that are supposedly "made in the US" or for trades that make their living. My husband is a commercial electrical contractor, and most everything is not made here, and the high tariffs put trades out of business. The extra costs and fees are passed down to the client and ultimately to the American consumers. Giant businesses and corporations are going to absorb the cost and pass it down as well.

Because the tariffs haven't deterred people's determination to take health into their own hands, the FDA beef up is the next level. One of the meds in my package was a name brand blood thinner for my brother in law. It's manufactured in Turkey and I believe also India. With his insurance it is $800 month! Less than 1/10th from India. Not a knock-off or dangerous non approved, exactly what would be received here. So the FDA is grabbing low-hanging fruit and congratulating themselves on a job well done.

I'm a lawyer in California. We have the Bar exam with the lowest Bar passage rate of the 50 states. We have that in order to keep the numbers of lawyers low enough to make lawyers wealthier. In one sense, I'm okay with laws designed to help me financially. At the same time, as a citizen, I think it's wrong to have regulations limiting entrance to a profession that effectively raise prices for consumers. I am not criticizing requiring lawyers to be licensed or to pass a Bar exam. I am criticizing making the requirements more difficult than necessary to protect consumers. The US is not the only country that comes up with regulations for that purpose. I will confess that there is an additional consideration that the US has to look at: Violations of patent laws. The US does have reason to enforce patent laws. Congress's authority to pass patent laws was included in the the US Constitution even prior to any amendments. Congress needs to do a better job of balancing the needs of consumers to get products versus the need to reward companies for researching and developing drugs. Unfortunately, we do have crony capitalism. When huge companies complain, the federal government tends to accommodate them. However, when a law negatively affects large numbers of small businesses, that gets less attention from government.

 

[StonePny]

I'm a lawyer in California. We have the Bar exam with the lowest Bar passage rate of the 50 states. We have that in order to keep the numbers of lawyers low enough to make lawyers wealthier. In one sense, I'm okay with laws designed to help me financially. At the same time, as a citizen, I think it's wrong to have regulations limiting entrance to a profession that effectively raise prices for consumers. I am not criticizing requiring lawyers to be licensed or to pass a Bar exam. I am criticizing making the requirements more difficult than necessary to protect consumers. The US is not the only country that comes up with regulations for that purpose. I will confess that there is an additional consideration that the US has to look at: Violations of patent laws. The US does have reason to enforce patent laws. Congress's authority to pass patent laws was included in the the US Constitution even prior to any amendments. Congress needs to do a better job of balancing the needs of consumers to get products versus the need to reward companies for researching and developing drugs. Unfortunately, we do have crony capitalism. When huge companies complain, the federal government tends to accommodate them. However, when a law negatively affects large numbers of small businesses, that gets less attention from government.

I agree with you on all the above.
I didn't know you were here-- I was a legal secretary for several years here in So Cal, years ago in my past life (not looking for a job, just wanted to mention it!)