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CCAGW Joins Coalition Opposing Efforts to Impose Confiscatory Taxes on Prescription Drugs

Letters to Officials

Monday, May 17, 2021

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer
322 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
317 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
1236 Longworth H.O.B. 
Washington, DC 20515

Minority Leader of the House
Kevin McCarthy
2468 Rayburn House Office
Building
Washington, D.C. 20515 

Dear Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi, Republican Leader McConnell, and Minority Leader McCarthy,

We represent fiscal conservatives, free market advocates, and ordinary Americans concerned about confiscatory taxes on the prescription medicines we need.

President Biden, Speaker Pelosi, and Leader Schumer are lining up behind a dangerous plan to impose government price controls on the most common prescription medicines, especially those most needed by seniors and the chronically ill (like insulin). Price controls kill innovation and new breakthroughs, such as COVID vaccines, which are critical to Americans' health and well-being.

Failure to comply with these new government price controls will result in a staggering 95 percent tax on those drugs which are sold at fair market value instead of being price controlled.

Imposing a 95 percent tax on the most essential prescription medicines is bad tax policy, bad health care policy, and will literally cost lives. Seniors, for example, cannot afford to pay double for the prescription medicines they need. Access to drugs will be impeded. Government rationing of scarce drugs is sure to follow.

A 95 percent excise tax means paying for the prescription drugs we need twice--once to the drug companies, and again to the government.

We urge you to abandon any efforts to impose a steep tax on the prescription medicines we need.

Sincerely,
 
Saulius "Saul" Anuzis
President
60 Plus Association

Bob Carlstrom 
President 
AMAC Action

Andy Mangione
Senior Vice President 
AMAC Action

Dan Conston
President
American Action Network

Dick Patten
President
American Business Defense
Council

Phil Kerpen
President
American Commitment

Daniel Schneider
Executive Director
American Conservative Union

Lisa B. Nelson
CEO
American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC)
 
Michael Bowman
President
American Legislative Exchange
Council (ALEC) Action

Brent Wm. Gardner
Chief Government Affairs Officer
Americans for Prosperity

Grover Norquist
President
Americans for Tax Reform

Ryan Ellis
President
Center for a Free Economy

Andrew F. Quinlan
President
Center for Freedom and
Prosperity

Jeffrey Mazzella
President
Center for Individual Freedom

Ginevra Joyce-Myers
Executive Director
Center for Innovation and Free
Enterprise

Chuck Muth
President
Citizen Outreach 

Gregory Conko
Senior Fellow
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Matthew Kandrach
President
Consumer Action for a Strong Economy

James Edwards
Founder and Executive Director 
Conservatives for Property Rights

Yaël Ossowski 
Deputy Director
Choice Center

Thomas Schatz
President
Council for Citizens Against Government Waste

Adam Brandon 
President
FreedomWorks

George Landrith
President
Frontiers of Freedom

Grace-Marie Turner
President
Galen Institute

James Taylor
President
Heartland Institute

Jessica Anderson
Executive Director
Heritage Action

Andrew Langer
President
Institute for Liberty

Tom Giovanetti
President
Institute for Policy Innovation

Brett Healy
President
John K. MacIver Institute for
Public Policy

Seton Motley
President
Less Government

Charles T. Moran
Managing Director
Log Cabin Republicans

Doug Badger

Charles Sauer
Founder and President
Market Institute

Horace Cooper
Co-Chairman Project 21
National Center for Public Policy
Research

Pete Sepp
President
National Taxpayers Union

Paul J. Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation

Bette Grande CEO, President Roughrider Policy Center 
Karen Kerrigan President & CEO Small Business &
Entrepreneurship Council

David Williams
President
Taxpayers Protection Alliance
 
David Balat
Director of Right on Healthcare
Texas Public Policy Foundation

Vance Ginn
Chief Economist
Texas Public Policy Foundation 

Casey Given
President
Young Voices

Heather R. Higgins
CEO
Independent Women’s Voice

Ralph Benko
Chairman
The Capitalist League

Kent Kaiser
Executive Director
Trade Alliance to Promote
Prosperity

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