Posted on 05/10/2010 6:05:57 PM PDT by pissant
The World Health Organization is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose billions of dollars in global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.
The aim of its taxing plans is to raise "tens of billions" of dollars for WHO that would be used to radically reorganize the research, development, production and distribution of medicines around the world, with greater emphasis on drugs for communicable diseases in poor countries.
The irony is that the WHO push to take a huge bite out of global consumers comes as the organization is having a management crisis of its own, juggling finances, failing to use its current resources efficiently, or keep its costs under control — and it doesn't expect to show positive results in managing those challenges until a year from now, at the earliest.
Fox News initially reported last January on the "suite of proposals" for "new and innovative sources of funding," prepared by a 25-member panel of medical experts, academics and health care bureaucrats, when it was presented of a meeting of WHO's 34-member Executive Board in Geneva.
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Hmmm....I think I’ll create an entity and start TAXING SOMEONE!!! Seems like ANY group can....
We’re so screwed, Pissant-—I don’t know if we will ever be able to overcome what’s going on without all out civil war.
Let’s pray it won’t come to that. First things first. Get a horde of conservatives elected in 2010. That will stop the bleeding until we can nominate and elect a genuine Reaganite in 2012.
I agree its stories like this that elaborate just how far the lunatics on the left are willing to go to tax us into oblivion, kill freedom and enslave us with their lunatic Marxist socialist agenda
Tea Party Unite.
I like your optimism—wish I could share it.......
This is my fear as well. I hope that it doesn’t come to this but it as though we are trying to use an umbrella in a tornado.
Every day I think it can’t get worse and it does. It is becoming hopeless.
Remove yourself from all that is taxed and regulated, this should be our response when this comes into effect. Let’s get out of the trough from which they feed
What is never ever mentioned, for example, in Greece, it is a cultural reality that failure to pay taxes is rampant.
And it is a huge surprise to learn that the nation is bankrupt and is not likely to change in my lifetime.
Bottom line: this is just another means of extorting the national wealth of the U.S.
Well...my husband took a “layoff/early retirement” last November....so, we have kinda done that....but, today, he got called to work on a Project for a year....we’ll use the funds to pay off a little mortgage we have....although I’m trying to convince him to sell stock and pay off the mortgage.....one way or other I do NOT want to OWE Bank of America ANYTHING!
When the day comes that my government will allow some unelected foreign bureaucrats to tax me direction, that is the day I will stop paying any taxes. Remember what sparked the founding of the United States? NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION!
sfl
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