Brian continues his fight with Senator Claire McCaskill

Dear Senator,
When you had a chance to strike a blow for your constituents, the citizens of Missouri, in the health care battle, you chose to vote for Obama's health care catastrophe, which your own favorite ex-president called "the craziest thing in the world". Now you pose yourself as a champion of the working class American...again! This is really getting old!

Brian E. Birdnow




Here is Claire's e-mail:

Drug companies have too much influence in Washington, D.C. – so it figures we're one of the only nations in the world that allows both advertising of prescription drugs to consumers and for those ads to be subsidized by taxpayers.

I went to Congress to fight for Missouri families, and that’s why I’m going after billions in taxpayer-funded subsidies for pharmaceutical advertising.

PHOTO: meeting with participants after a public town hall in Sullivan

That’s right! Tax deductions for those drug ads you see on television.

Under current law, drugmakers can fully deduct the cost of television, online, magazine, and radio ads from their taxes—all while continuing to hike drug prices on Missouri families. Too many drug companies are spending more on sales and marketing than on research and development. And Missourians are tired of paying for it.

In 2015 alone, drug companies in the U.S. spent more than $6 billion on fully tax-deductible advertising expenses.

Last year, I heard from thousands of Missourians at 50 public town halls who were worried about:

* the rising costs of prescriptions
* their kid’s public schools
* the safety of local roads and bridges
* and the security of working families’ retirement and pensions

And frankly, I think all those problems are more deserving of Missourians’ hard-earned tax dollars, than making sure that wildly profitable drug companies get an even bigger rebate after tax season.
Let's stop this nonsense,

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