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<blockquote data-quote="DriveInDriѵeOut" data-source="post: 2916422" data-attributes="member: 44954"><a href="http://gizmodo.com/mylan-sells-asthma-treatments-while-it-quietly-invests-1796319867" target="_blank">Mylan Sells Asthma Treatments While It Quietly Invests In Coal</a>Mylan is aggressive when it comes to lowering its tax bill. It moved its headquarters overseas in 2015 and it paid a tax rate of 7.4 percent. Thanks to strategies like investing in coal, the company actually had an effective tax rate of negative 294 percent in 2016.As the <a href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/143447/major-asthma-drugmaker-quietly-investing-coal-side" target="_blank">New Republic</a> points out, there’s also another benefit to Mylan that comes from pumping a horrible pollutant into the air: It manufactures <a href="https://www.mylan.com/en/products/our-medicines/branded-products" target="_blank">two different drugs</a> that treat pulmonary problems. Over the years, science has <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1530525/pdf/amjph00731-0013.pdf" target="_blank">found links</a> between asthma and air pollution from coal-fueled power plants. But <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/air-pollution-is-not-the-cause-of-asthma-epidemic-1578437.html" target="_blank">other studies</a> have disagreed. Scientists do agree that air pollution exacerbates <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465283/" target="_blank">asthma</a> and <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18236218" target="_blank">chronic obstructive pulmonary disease</a>.Hey, that’s just capitalism.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DriveInDriѵeOut, post: 2916422, member: 44954"] [B][URL='http://gizmodo.com/mylan-sells-asthma-treatments-while-it-quietly-invests-1796319867']Mylan Sells Asthma Treatments While It Quietly Invests In Coal[/URL][/B] Mylan is aggressive when it comes to lowering its tax bill. It moved its headquarters overseas in 2015 and it paid a tax rate of 7.4 percent. Thanks to strategies like investing in coal, the company actually had an[B] effective tax rate of negative 294 percent[/B] in 2016. [B]As the [URL='https://newrepublic.com/minutes/143447/major-asthma-drugmaker-quietly-investing-coal-side']New Republic[/URL] points out, there’s also another benefit to Mylan that comes from pumping a horrible pollutant into the air: It manufactures [URL='https://www.mylan.com/en/products/our-medicines/branded-products']two different drugs[/URL] that treat pulmonary problems.[/B] Over the years, science has [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1530525/pdf/amjph00731-0013.pdf']found links[/URL] between asthma and air pollution from coal-fueled power plants. But [URL='http://www.independent.co.uk/news/air-pollution-is-not-the-cause-of-asthma-epidemic-1578437.html']other studies[/URL] have disagreed. Scientists do agree that air pollution exacerbates [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465283/']asthma[/URL] and [URL='https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18236218']chronic obstructive pulmonary disease[/URL]. Hey, that’s just capitalism. [/QUOTE]

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