Posted on 12/29/2004 9:50:28 PM PST by JohnCliftn
Excerpt from Jan Egeland Biography
Mr Egeland holds a Magister Artium in Political Science, University of Oslo. He has been a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and a fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and the Truman Institute for the Advancement for Peace, Jerusalem. Mr. Egeland has been Chair of Amnesty International, Norway, and Vice Chair of the International Executive Committee of Amnesty International.
Which means he gets a gross salary of UnderSecretaryGeneral|Gross $186,144 but pays no Income Taxes for I quote from the link:
Income taxes: Most member states have granted United Nations staff exemption from national income taxation on their United Nations emoluments. However, a few member States do tax the emoluments of their nationals. In such cases, the organizations reimburse the income tax to the staff member.
which means even if he does pay income taxes the UN reimburses him!
(Excerpt) Read more at unisdr.org ...
Who'da thunk?
Man, they love sKerry and the democrats, don't they. Who'd a thunk it.
You may have picked up a link for a lecturer/researcher; someone who has already received a degree. A Fulbright Scholar is usually in pursuit of a degree and doesn't get anywhere near that amount of money. Also, both governments support the program. It's not just the US. I think the info you want is here: http://www.fulbright.no/?module=Articles;action=Article.publicShow;ID=32
My friend is a Fulbright Scholar from Norway. She would be shocked to find out she is getting $5000 a month.
My understanding is she got about $10-12,000 her first year and that was it. After that, she only has her stipend to live on, which is the same $1400 or so that we all made as doctoral students before passing our comprehensive exams.
She has the title of Fulbright Scholar, which is trotted out at school functions and a crappy insurance coverage from them, worse than the university student insurance. Unless she gets something new on a Christmas trip home to Norway, she's been wearing the same clothes since we got here in 2001.
I have some additional scholarship income and often give my friend food, school supplies and other odds and ends, as $1400 doesn't go far in Seattle, rents being what they are.
I'm not supporting Egeland. I just didn't want people to have the wrong idea about the program. The money allowed her to get out of Norway with a little money to get an apartment, etc. over here. It was hardly a windfall for a 5 year program.
If he has children the UN also pays the full tuition for them to attend any University in the world..tax fee of course.
Did you all see this?
And no taxes?
BTW, nice work.
Just glancing at him, I don't think he's a breeder.
Can someone please ping . . .
The Washington Times
The New York Post
The Boston Herald
FOX News
Rush
etc.
That's too funny!
Never mind. I just sent it to the White House.
Nothing like starting at the top.
BTW, you're in great form this morning, or is it still evening for you?
Does the UN reimburse them for that too??
Evening for me, morning for you, I'm sure. Gosh, is it 3 a.m.?????
I am in a good mood tonight. Nothing I love more than seeing a man like this jerk exposed!
As the fellow from the Guardian Angels (I don't want to attempt spelling) sitting in for Hannity called him, "The Squarehead!"
The 16th amendment was NEVER ratified. It was declared ratified by executive fiat. It has no legal basis except the defacto status we have given it by our compliance.
(Name withheld to protect the non-compliant!)
Curtis called him that? Way cool.
What this article means in a nutshell that since the U.S. taxpayers pay for 20% to 25% of the UN's dues that we U.S. taxpayers are paying these elitists' TAXES.
And these elitists still have the gall to bad mouth us.
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