“A 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world. A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling. Another “tiny” tax on all financial transactions, including stock and bond trading, and trading in financial derivatives. New taxes on carbon emissions and on airline tickets. A royalty on all undersea mineral resources extracted more than 100 miles offshore of any nation’s territory. “
This will kill the world economy.
Get US out of the UN!!!!!
They don't care -- they're the reincarnation of the movable feast that for years consumed the fat of the land under Louis XIV, XV, and XVI, sitting at Versailles admiring themselves in the Hall of Mirrors or lounging around the palaces and big houses of Paris.
A high-school friend married a Danish diplomat 40 years ago; he was posted to the floating island of lotus eaters that wanders between New York and Geneva, parasitizing the governments of the world (but preeminently ours). It was sometimes challenging, she said, but someone had to go to all the parties!
A few years ago, an Asian U.N. bureaucrat, a fonctionnaire, came to the American Midwest to give a little talk, to get up in front of all the yayhoo American farmers, the little people, and tell them how the cow ate the cabbage, and how things were going to be. They should have hanged him on the spot.