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<blockquote data-quote="rickyb" data-source="post: 1536206" data-attributes="member: 56035"><p><strong>The Corporate Debt to Society: $10,000 Per Household, Per Year</strong></p><p></p><p>That estimate is based on facts, not the <a href="http://www.alternet.org/media/why-conservatives-opt-propaganda-over-reality" target="_blank">conservative-style</a> emotion that might deny the responsibility for any debt to the American people. Wealth redistribution to big business has occurred in a variety of ways to be explained below. And there’s some precedent for paying Americans for the use of their commonly-held resources. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund" target="_blank">Alaska Permanent Fund</a> has been in effect, and widely popular, for over thirty years.</p><p></p><p><strong>The Main Argument: Corporations Have Used Our Money To Build Their Businesses </strong></p><p></p><p>Over half (<a href="http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=10828" target="_blank">57 percent</a>) of basic research is paid for by our tax dollars. Corporations don’t want to pay for this. It’s easier for them to allow public money to do the startup work, and then, when profit potential is evident, to take over with applied R&D, often with patents that take the rights away from the rest of us.</p><p></p><p>All the technology in our phones and computers started this way, and <a href="http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=11588" target="_blank">continues</a> to the present day. Pharmaceutical companies have depended on the <a href="http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm" target="_blank">National Institutes of Health</a>. The quadrillion-dollar trading capacity of the financial industry was made possible by government-funded Internet technology, and the big banks survived because of a $7 trillion public <a href="http://theweek.com/article/index/221883/the-federal-reserves-breathtaking-77-trillion-bank-bailout" target="_blank">bailout</a>.</p><p></p><p>A particularly outrageous example of a company turning public research into a patent-protected private monopoly is the sordid tale (<a href="http://www.alternet.org/drugs/pharma-drug-bankrupting-america" target="_blank">here</a>) of the drug company Gilead Sciences.</p><p></p><p><strong>Adding to the Argument: Publicly Funded Technology Is Taking Our Jobs Away </strong></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.popularresistance.org/corporate-debt-to-society-10000-per-household-per-year/" target="_blank">https://www.popularresistance.org/corporate-debt-to-society-10000-per-household-per-year/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickyb, post: 1536206, member: 56035"] [B]The Corporate Debt to Society: $10,000 Per Household, Per Year[/B] That estimate is based on facts, not the [URL='http://www.alternet.org/media/why-conservatives-opt-propaganda-over-reality']conservative-style[/URL] emotion that might deny the responsibility for any debt to the American people. Wealth redistribution to big business has occurred in a variety of ways to be explained below. And there’s some precedent for paying Americans for the use of their commonly-held resources. The [URL='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund']Alaska Permanent Fund[/URL] has been in effect, and widely popular, for over thirty years. [B]The Main Argument: Corporations Have Used Our Money To Build Their Businesses [/B] Over half ([URL='http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/showcontent.aspx?id=10828']57 percent[/URL]) of basic research is paid for by our tax dollars. Corporations don’t want to pay for this. It’s easier for them to allow public money to do the startup work, and then, when profit potential is evident, to take over with applied R&D, often with patents that take the rights away from the rest of us. All the technology in our phones and computers started this way, and [URL='http://www.aau.edu/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=11588']continues[/URL] to the present day. Pharmaceutical companies have depended on the [URL='http://www.nih.gov/about/budget.htm']National Institutes of Health[/URL]. The quadrillion-dollar trading capacity of the financial industry was made possible by government-funded Internet technology, and the big banks survived because of a $7 trillion public [URL='http://theweek.com/article/index/221883/the-federal-reserves-breathtaking-77-trillion-bank-bailout']bailout[/URL]. A particularly outrageous example of a company turning public research into a patent-protected private monopoly is the sordid tale ([URL='http://www.alternet.org/drugs/pharma-drug-bankrupting-america']here[/URL]) of the drug company Gilead Sciences. [B]Adding to the Argument: Publicly Funded Technology Is Taking Our Jobs Away [/B] [URL]https://www.popularresistance.org/corporate-debt-to-society-10000-per-household-per-year/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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