Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2018
President Donald Trump wants to build a drug cartel – and wants New Zealand to pay for it
13 May 2018 - Accusing other countries of "freeloading", US President Donald Trump has announced plans to make countries like New Zealand pay more for drugs.
Speaking at the White House this weekend, Trump accused foreign countries of extorting "unreasonably low prices from US drug makers" and forcing Americans to pay more to subsidise the research and development costs.
"America will not be cheated any longer, and especially will not be cheated by foreign countries," Trump said. "It's time to end the global freeloading once and for all." Trump had directed his trade representative Bob Lighthizer to "make fixing this injustice a top priority with every trading partner" by negotiating with other countries to pay more.
