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World Tax proposed by France's PM Chirac (Big Barf alert)
Swiss Info Agency ^ | September 3rd, 2002 | Reuters

Posted on 09/03/2002 1:45:33 PM PDT by GaryMontana

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - French President Jacques Chirac will urge world leaders to launch talks on a new international tax to fight world poverty, sources with him at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg say.

The sources said Chirac rejected the existing "Tobin Tax" proposal to raise levies purely on foreign exchange transactions but would call in a speech to the summit for discussion on a wider tax on wealth generated by globalisation.

"It could be a tax on airplane tickets, on carbon dioxide, on health products sold in industrialised countries, and indeed on international financial transactions," one source said.

"The idea of wanting to hold back a small share (of global wealth) to relieve poverty is not a mad idea at all. But the debate has been polluted by the campaign on the Tobin Tax," the same source added.

The Tobin Tax, championed by non-governmental groups as a way both to raise funds and to deter financial speculation, attracted much interest particularly in Europe last year but since appears to have fallen out of favour.

European officials have noted possible problems with the tax, proposed by U.S. Nobel Prize winner James Tobin in the 1970s. One is that financial markets would simply move to those countries that chose not to apply the tax.

World leaders began arriving at the World Summit on Sustainable Development on Monday hoping to settle differences over an action plan to end what South African President Thabo Mbeki called "global apartheid" between rich and poor.

The sources close to Chirac, who was due to speak in Johannesburg around midday local time (11 a.m. British time) on Monday, pointed to studies suggesting global development aid would have to be doubled to around $100 billion (64 billion pounds) to really fight poverty.


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KEYWORDS: chirac; eu; europe; france; greenjihadists; greenunthugs; soicalism; stupdity; surrender; taxingwatermelons; unwatermelons; worldtax
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To: Mr_Mayor
ROFL rock on!
61 posted on 09/03/2002 5:11:13 PM PDT by PianoMan
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To: GaryMontana
The next time France needs our help we should tell them that we first must consult the UN's security council, where we, the USA, will veto any aid we, the USA, propose to give you.

Intentional circular-reasoning.

I love it! ;-)

62 posted on 09/03/2002 5:42:38 PM PDT by rdb3
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To: GaryMontana
TAX THIS JER-AUK
63 posted on 09/03/2002 5:48:30 PM PDT by exnavy
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To: GaryMontana
Dear Jack, you're not fit to bash American capitalism and take money out of the pockets of those who worked hard for it to those who don't deserve it and I have in mind especially your Third World dictator and warlord crony friends. Oh and Jack - if it weren't for the Uniyed States Of America, you'd still be licking Kraut boots.
64 posted on 09/03/2002 5:49:14 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: GaryMontana
WHERE'S AL GORE!!!!!!!!!!!!
65 posted on 09/03/2002 5:53:03 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: TheBigB
Fruck the fench.

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66 posted on 09/03/2002 6:38:00 PM PDT by gitmo
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To: Billthedrill
on carbon dioxide...
Levied by whom?

What do you think the Kyoto Treaty is about? Countries that don't have to abide yet have "CO2 credits" which they will sell to countries who need them (read the U.S.)

It's just another redistribution of our wealth to other countries.

The thing that really chaps my hide is that countries like China get a pass on Kyoto (look it up)

67 posted on 09/03/2002 6:44:52 PM PDT by cidrasm
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To: GaryMontana
If a poor man asks for my help. I'll help him to the best of my ability. If someone puts a gun in my face and orders me to give said poor man my money, we've got a problem. When the big man with the gun orders me to give him the money, then he'll give the poor guy the scraps after he takes his cut, myself and the poor man are most likely both getting f*cked. When the big man with the gun does this supercession of national sovereignty, stop paying, lock, load, and start shooting.
68 posted on 09/03/2002 6:47:39 PM PDT by cold_vicious_logic
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To: TomServo
At this point, the only thing France could possibly do that would surprise me, is win a war.
Or bathe.

Nah. I've met some French folks who actually bathed. Never met any French who won a war.

69 posted on 09/03/2002 7:01:29 PM PDT by cidrasm
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To: GaryMontana
Actually, we already pay a "world tax" now in the form of all the billions we've "contributed" to the UN. Time for a New York tea party...
70 posted on 09/03/2002 7:05:14 PM PDT by Lion's Cub
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To: 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...

I wonder how much tax they would levy on Cameroon? After all the "environmentalist" scientists are venting from Lake Nyos over 300 million cubic meters of carbon dioxide and over 10 million cubic meters of CO2 from Lake Monoun. I guess there is no hysteria about "greenhouse gasses" as applied to CO2 coming from a poor third world country.

71 posted on 09/03/2002 7:14:43 PM PDT by FreedomCalls
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To: cidrasm
Nah. I've met some French folks who actually bathed.

Yer blowin' my stereotypin', man. ;-)

72 posted on 09/03/2002 7:15:21 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo
Sorry! Does it help that they bathed in perfume? Closest thing to clean water they have.
73 posted on 09/03/2002 7:23:19 PM PDT by cidrasm
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To: GaryMontana
One is that financial markets would simply move to those countries that chose not to apply the tax.

Freedom will be a fond memory if these leftist perverted socialist crooks are not stopped cold.

74 posted on 09/03/2002 7:53:38 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: GaryMontana
Come on and try and collect

647 grains at a time.

75 posted on 09/03/2002 8:07:42 PM PDT by P8riot
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To: P8riot
Come on and try and collect

There are more than a few Americans who share your sentiments.

Nice pic, BTW.

76 posted on 09/03/2002 8:13:10 PM PDT by Mulder
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To: A CA Guy; GaryMontana
Time to invade France! LOL

you guys crazy? what if we win?(like there's some question). we'll never be rid of 'em.

77 posted on 09/03/2002 8:26:44 PM PDT by johnboy
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To: GaryMontana
Dont laugh.....this is gonna be the next ICC or Kyoto Accord.
78 posted on 09/03/2002 8:29:42 PM PDT by VaBthang4
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To: GaryMontana
Yeah great idea. Some middle class family in america is not going to be able to send thier kids to college so that the money can go to some third-world rathole to be used for the funding of yet another despot's presidential palace or land distribution scheme.
79 posted on 09/04/2002 12:56:51 AM PDT by rmmcdaniell
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To: GaryMontana
Who says world tax says world army. The poor may get a job as cannon fodder for the UN, but that is about it. You see, they cannot inherently be accountable or viable institutions, so the only way they can gain "popularity" is through proselytized demagogic recruitment of the "discontented".

This world government is giving itself rights and proselytizing before it even applologize for its own existence as the founding fathers did , under G_d.

80 posted on 09/04/2002 9:15:22 AM PDT by lavaroise
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