[GaryMontana]

If France wants a world tax let them pay for it. Why should we pay for things that France wants. Any nation that loves to surrender and eat snails and frogs cannot be trusted.

Any one can voluntarily send money to the UN. Where in the US Constitution does it say we have to pay money to the UN? Where does it say in the Constitution that the UN has a right to tax the American citizens? Raise taxes, create coinage etc...?

US out of the UN, and UN out of the USA By th

Who will use this tax? How will it be used? In what way will it be used? How will benefit? who will oversee the monies collected? Who will be hired to do this? What qualifications will they need to be hired?

[Carry_Okie]

As I understand it, there already is such a tax on airline tickets.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

International FICA. What will they think of next?

[Nogbad]

Chirac, by French standards, is a conservative.

God help France.

[TheBigB]

F*ck France. Let's slap a 400% tax on cheese production and watch what they do...

[j271]

If you think welfare has been a taxpayer's nightmare and a total failure in this country., wait until these euro-socialists try to put the entire world on the dole.

[Petronski]

Can I be the first to say:

Molon labe!

[TightSqueeze]

WTF, don't these assholes realize that government intervention is the root cause of poverty?

[Billthedrill]

It could be a tax on airplane tickets, on carbon dioxide...

Levied by whom? There are, after all, no carbon dioxide meters distributed worldwide...my guess is that it would be levied according to some environmentalist's estimate, and would be targeted at Guess Who. They're gonna ram the Kyoto Extortion Protocols through by any means necessary...

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

"The sources close to Chirac...pointed to studies suggesting global development aid would have to be doubled to around $100 billion (64 billion pounds) to really fight poverty, doubled again to around $200 billion (128 billion pounds) to really, really fight poverty and doubled again to around $400 billion (256 billion pounds) to really, really, really fight poverty."

[Shermy]

In other words, bailouts for French loans to third world countries. This seems to be one of the larger obsessions with the WEst Euro political elites. Remember Bono's tour of Africa, foisting the canard how debt relief would help the poor???

[LTCJ]

I suppose Chirac would have me surrender to the French proposal. Ah, the irony.

[Glenn]

I still hold out hope there will be an accounting of the billions already thrown down the rat hole. Who got the money? How did they spend it? I'm betting it lined a lot of pockets. The do-gooders just see that as the cost of doing business.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

World tax!Begin with the BERLIN AIRLIFT and start adding up how much money the U.S.has given away to date.This doesn't include the training we have given the people of the world on how to grow and harvest crops.IF THEY HAVEN'T LEARNED TO TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES BY NOW,THEY NEVER WILL!"Go away world,you bother me".

[witnesstothefall]

I think this is a wonderful idea...for the rest of the world. The U.S. should be exempt since it is already carrying half the globe on its tab, so it's a great idea that the rest of the international community should pony up. The day the U.S. agrees to participate in this communist gambit is the last day I pay taxes.

[white trash redneck]

What he's suggesting is steady cash flow for third world kleptocrats.

[A CA Guy]

Time to invade France! LOL

[ghost of nixon]

there is only one thing worse than democrats getting their hands on my taxes... foreigners & "international do-gooders" getting their hands on my taxes.

[Lazamataz]

At this point, the only thing France could possibly do that would surprise me, is win a war.

[Feiny]

What France fails to acknowledge is that no amount of money in the world will help bring these countries out of poverty as long as they have tyrants and dictators running the show.

Only when they get rid of the dictators and establish a stable representative government should any country send them aid. Until then, forget it.

[spunkets]

"French President Jacques Chirac will urge world leaders to launch talks on a new international tax to fight world poverty,"

Spunkets urges each and everyone to launch their middle finger high in the air in response to this nonsense.