It says that the wealth of billionaires grew at an average rate of four percent a year in the two decades before the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Conveniently leaving out how much shrinkage there was AFTER the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
That organization needs to be slammed into history by any means and soon!
Tear down the greatest edifice in the world, and all the poor people get maybe an extra half a brick each.
Which is easy to throw and take down the next greatest edifice.
Their work shall never be done, as in demolishing the last edifice.
The broke governments of the West are already eying that money for their own budgets, and won't let the UN take it.
After all, even if you confiscated 100% of all Billionaires wealth you couldn't pay off the deficit for one year. That leaves nothing left over for the UN.
I have a counter offer. Each time a government or world body proposes a new tax, it must remove an equal percentage of laws off the books as it deigns to tax on a targetted group.
Let’s see. The UN collects 400 billion a year for the poor. By the time all the UN officials take their cuts, then the governments of the poor take their cuts, that will leave about $1.62 to give to the worlds’ poor.
Hey, the UN could even appoint Joe Biden to oversee the program to make sure there’s no funny business and the money goes directly to those most in need.
Because, you know, “Nobody Messes With Joe!”
IMHO, the “billionaires” need to get together to form an army and air force to take out the blue helmeted U.N. fags. Just an idea. A pre-emptive strike by their army on the U.N. would be a real hoot to watch. Blue-helmeted baby rapers running like bunnies.
I think this tax is a great idea. It should be worded like this:
If the U.N. building is still standing in one year, then tax all the billionaires 1%.
"Oil for Food" worked so well with Kofi Annan's son managing it!
Unfortunately for these UN mavens, I remember another (only a single example of many) the “Oil for Food” SCANDAL! Money to give the Iraqi poor food went instead to UN corruption and Sadam’s military.
There is no end to pie-in-the-sky schemes to distribute other people’s money. Take it as you will, UNLESS that money was illegally gotten, it does NOT BELONG TO THOSE WHO WOULD REDISTRIBUTE IT!
Thus to these UN scalawags - redistribute your own money and otherwise STFU!
At least it sounds like FUUN...
It says that the wealth of billionaires grew at an average rate of four percent a year in the two decades before the 2008-2009 financial crisis.
Conveniently leaving out how much shrinkage there was AFTER the 2008-2009 financial crisis.