AFP: Alternative World Water Forum calls for global tax to save vital resource

AFP via Yahoo ^ | 3/20/05 | AFP - Geneva

[MNJohnnie]

Not just no, HELL NO.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[SteveMcKing]

And then Sonny Bono will stand up and demand that every country be exempt except the US.

[henderson field]

Another disastrous socialist plan.
Actually, we don't have too little water.
We have too many people.

[calex59]

Just another attempt to make a "one world government". If they can get a world tax of some kind started then the next step will be some other type of "world law" and then one more step and another. Slow but sure they want to suck us into their little trap of one world governance.

I am, of course, against this.

[SIDENET]

Oh, man. I just returned from laughing at DU posts and saw this. Too...much...liberal...crap! These idiots can tax their own water as much as they want, but a "global water tax"? Where do they come up with this stuff?

[Sgt_Schultze]

The first thing we should do is promote global warming. We need to melt as much of the ice cover as possible to free up the trapped fresh water supplies.

[nopardons]

My water comes from a well on my property,which I had to spend my money on. These idiots want to place a tax on my use of the water I own? I bought this land,I paid for that well,I pay for the electricity that it takes to get that water up from 600 feet down,I paid for the water purifying system; that water is mine!

What's next... some nutters wanting to taxing the air I breathe?

[Texas_Jarhead]

"...and democratic control of the resource"

Future headline, "China and India vote to retain shared control of global water rights".

[SteveMcKing]

OOPS. I mean the guy from U2. Who is he?

[ken21]

no doubt water's the next big grab.

billionaires are buying up water.

for example, denver's reticent philip anschutz, who started the company that owns qwest, the 14-state telephone co, recently bought underground water around el paso, tx.

[Malesherbes]

A brilliant idea! If there is a shortage of something, tax it!

[corkoman]

OOPS. I mean the guy from U2. Who is he?

Bono, simply Bono.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

We need to develop and alternative wetting agent. We are too dependent on water and it is hurting the environment. We need a source for reliable organic water.

[hermgem]

Amazing how many groups spring up and hold meetings in Geneva and other famous places.
We heard about the Internet needs regulation and a tax, money transfers that need taxing, here comes water, energy usages, etc.
Where does all the money come from to travel and attend these meetings?
How many tax exempt organizations are floating around and spend untaxed monies to meet and then go on merrily to come up with other schemes as justifications for their personal existence?
On whose list do I have to go to get a call for expenses paid travels?

[boris]

"The forum proposed introducing a one-cent tax on water worldwide"

One cent per liter? Per acre-foot? Per cupful?...

Coastal nations could construct (one-way porous) barriers at the 200-mile limit and begin massive desalizization projects; their wealth would be immeasurable. Land-locked nations, well, sorry about that.

--Boris

[teeman8r]

so much for the internal combustion engine i developed that runs on water... man i hate this... just when i've finally worked out all the bugs so we can finally be independent of foreign countries for energy...

well, back to the drawing board...

teeman

[RebelTex]

"The first thing we should do is promote global warming."

Now hold on there, pardner. I've got the answer for global warming. It's called 'nuclear winter', starting with North Korea & Iran.

Now you say we need to promote global warming. Gee whiz, I wish y'all would make up your minds.

;^D