circuscritic

The correct answer is neither.

Miracle drugs are almost exclusively funded, or heavily subsidized, by the public sector. Typically through NIH grants, or other public funding mechanisms through the University system.

R&D budgets for a big pharma go to things like reformulating existing brand name drugs, to prevent them going generic as they are supposed to under current law. Or other high return, reduced effort, drugs i.e. new dick pills, narcotics, etc.

Executive pay and bonuses are not going anywhere, no matter what happens with these drug prices. They will cut their company to the bone, and then collude with private equity to take them private and gut it, before they ever considered cutting down their bonuses or stock options.

I assumed it was going to be some slick evil mastermind unknowingly drugging his nanny.

He was literally just coming home when she just dozed off, and covering her face with chloroform rag...but she was waking up remembering a rag smelling of chemicals and passing out.

After the third or fourth time it happened, she put a hidden camera up.

Sure enough, this sadistic dumb fuck, did it again, but this time in full view of the hidden camera.

He only confessed because she went to the police and showed the idiot knocking her out with chloroform and abusing her, yet again.

This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.

I understand they wouldn't get involved in regular local mail mailbox crime, but this was inside of a US Post Office.

That has to be the easiest layup possible a USPIS agent to get a case closure off from, but now I'm really curious about what jurisdiction local police or sheriff's deputies even have when dealing with crimes that occur inside of the post office, which I'm fairly certain are federal buildings.

I always thought that crimes that occur on federal property, or land, are automatically assigned to federal law enforcement.

Postal Inspectors are Federal Law enforcement, and while you could argue that their budget hasn't kept up with inflation, it hasn't been cut either.

Point is, while I'll always support the need for the US Post Office, and support employees who work in any capacity to deliver mail, I can't be as charitable with the USPIS when they have the manpower to spare for warrantless surveillance programs.