Comment Jesus Christ. (Score 1, Flamebait) 296
This same thread is going on over at reddit and the literal clones of one another are all posting the exact same dreary bullshit. "But, but, muh tax dollars!". Those zoomers and millenials are all ranting about guillotines and windfall taxes and "get muh tax money back" when 90% of those fuckers pay like $100 in taxes a year anyway.
Here is the truth. We needed a vaccine fast, so we paid for it and we fucking got it. Success! Everyone was happy, and what we the taxpayers got for our money (keeping in mind, again, that 90% of the fuckers complaining probably pay like an effective Federal tax rate of 8%, if that) was an effective way to slow the virus, and reduce severity - and we got it quickly and the government got a good deal to give us all free shots.
Oh, and the research that led to that vaccine will probably end up curing a giant chunk of human disease. Cancers included.
So now what happens? We're through the crisis and they raise the price to a whopping $130. Oh no, not $130 it's (cue scary music for idiots) "400%!!". So for a shot you don't really need much anymore, that you get once or twice a year $130 is supposed to be expensive? And your insurance will probably pay most or all of it?
People are fucking crazy and super easy to rile up. Put "400%!" in the headline, make it about a pharmaceutical and these rabble fucks get all riled up.