Posted on 01/15/2010 12:01:27 PM PST by Red in Blue PA
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
Such a scheme could raise "tens of billions of dollars" on behalf of the United Nations' public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research, development and manufacturing capabilities, among other things, to the developing world.
The multibillion-dollar "indirect consumer tax" is only one of a "suite of proposals" for financing the rapid transformation of the global medical industry that will go before WHO's 34-member supervisory Executive Board at its biannual meeting in Geneva.
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WHO? GFY.
Go take a flying something at a rolling donut.
Congress can tax us and then give it to the UN which would accomplish the same end. They do that already and can just add new taxes to raise more money for the UN.
We pay for the majority of the UN’s bills but there’s over 100 members, what’s with that? :-(
I guess they got bored raping underage girls in Africa.
Just get US OUT of the UN!!!
EXACTLY!
Just what we need our drugs make in Haiti.
This makes my head explode. I HATE the UN!
considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills onlineThanks Red in Blue PA.
They should ban the united nations, but until then i will use the snail mail.
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