Posted on 02/03/2012 3:48:26 PM PST by SeekAndFind
At least United Nations officials are transparent about their goals to redistribute wealth on a global scale. According to several U.N. leaders, health care, education, housing, water and sanitation, among other services, are basic human rights, equivalent to the rights to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” To ensure these rights, these U.N. higher-ups want to institute a global tax. The Deseret News reports:
Inside the U.N., another group of civil society leaders demanded a basic level of social security as they promoted a “social protection floor” at a preparatory forum for the Commission on Social Development, which began Feb. 1.
The focus of the forum was “universal access to basic social protection and social services.”
“No one should live below a certain income level,” stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. “Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.”
The money to fund these services may come from a new world tax.
“We will need a modest but long-term way to finance this transformation,” stated Jens Wandel, Deputy Director of the United Nations Development Program. “One idea which we could consider is a minimal financial transaction tax (of .005 percent). This will create $40 billion in revenue.”
Thankfully, the United Nations doesn’t really have the authority to institute this type of tax without the agreement of its member nations, but these sorts of schemes that blatantly favor central planning over grass-roots development initiatives that are more effective anyway make me wonder: What does the United States gain by its membership in the United Nations? Consider: In 2010, the United States gave $7.7 billion to the United Nations system — and for what return? Wouldn’t that money have been better spent on more concentrated international development efforts? The United Nations — an unaccountable bureaucracy — repeatedly proves itself corrupt and inefficient, yet leaders of the most respectable nations in the world continue to pay court to despots and dictators at U.N. headquarters. Why?
does anyone really think a ‘world tax’ will help the poor?
uhhhhh,
Why doesn’t the UN promote Christianity and democracy instead of a tax? Wherever Islam exists you have unparalleled poverty, illiteracy, crime, corruption, backwards governments and third world conditions.
just joking/ but serious the same
Why should the west pay for Islams underdeveloped screw ups?
“No one should live below a certain income level,” stated Milos Koterec, President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. “Everyone should be able to access at least basic health services, primary education, housing, water, sanitation and other essential services.”
The power to tax something is the power to destroy that something. Who in their right mind trusts the U.N. to do anything they say they are going to do.
Of course not, however it would do a fine job of stealing some serious manual labor.
From us in the USA most of all of course.
The UN is not a government, giving the power to tax should be seen as treason.
A tax is easier and of course is more secure since it is demanded by law.
Would a world flat tax be cheaper than what we are giving now? How about just a universal membership fee? All members pony up equally? ROFL, way past time to just say no to the UN and ask them to vacate the premises in NY.
Which “poor” are they talkin’ about? The “poor”, the “very poor” or the “really, really poor”? I didn’t know until this week that there were so many classifications of “the poor”. Thanks Mitt.
They can collect mine 147 grains at a time.
muslims are happiest cooking with camel poop, wiping their bottoms with their left hands and eating with their right hands.
They love being stuck in the Stone Age. They have everything they need already.
-———They love being stuck in the Stone Age. -——
They have the tallest buildings in the world and an immense indoor ski slope. They have several of the most modern cities in the world.
Your perceprion is in error
ewe are so right... and they want to forcibly invite us into their caliphate as if it is something better!
World enslavement. Nothing more, nothing less.
In return, the US gets regularlly buggered by parasitic socialist vermin.
“They have the tallest buildings in the world and an immense indoor ski slope. They have several of the most modern cities in the world.”
Paid for with westerners oil money, engineered by westerners, and built by slave labor
There is no slave labor.
The capitalist Arabs and other successful Moslem nations have invested their money wisely and have hired what they needed to progress. Your denigration is unfounded
Right......
Thats exactly why the middle east is such a peaceful, american friendly place.
I see the ‘world tax’ as an opportunity for rampant corruption literally on a global scale.
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