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UN considers imposing global taxes

published by Tom Sullivan on Sun, 2012-09-30 23:43

The United Nations will stay busy even after the annual General Assembly meetings wrap up this week, and on the agenda for upcoming debates are whether several global taxes should be implemented to milk rich member states and assist the impoverished.

The United Nations plans to finalize their agenda for the rest of this year’s session this week in order to establish a game plan stretching into December, and Fox News reports that among the issues to be discussed during future hearings will be a series of international taxes that will take from the rich and give to the poor, with the UN General Assembly essentially acting as a global Robin Hood aiding countries that are still struggling to emerge.

Fox News claims in an exclusive report published this week that among the global taxes slated to be considered by the UN this year are a 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world, a “tiny” tax on all financial transactions worldwide and even yet another fee tacked on to already heavily-taxed airline tickets.

Columbia University Professor Jeffrey Sachs, who also serves as an UN assistant secretary general, suggests that global excises include carbon taxes and other green-friendly initiatives in order to find a way to tackle the ever-present issue of climate change.

“We have to make a technological transition that’s quite deep to new energy systems, new transport systems, more efficient buildings and that can be back loaded,” Sachs said to the media earlier in the week at a Climate Week NYC conference in New York.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has pegged Sachs as the head of the new intellectual lobbying group of experts called the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, and says he will be in charge of working closely with “United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions and other international organizations” in order to keep a catastrophic climate disaster from impacting the Earth any sooner than experts already expect.

At the Climate Week conference, Sachs said he has no problem putting global taxes on the books to clean up the planet and put future generations at ease.

“I’m happy to have the future pay for a lot of this,” Sachs said, according to Bloomberg News. “It doesn’t have to be current financed.”
Fox News now reports that “an around-the-world tax” that’ll require rich countries to cough up $25 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions could bring in as much as $250 billion a lone to be used on other members states. The proposed billionaire-tax, Fox adds, could collect upwards of $50 billion annual.

The UN is expected to consider the likelihood of certain “innovative methods of financing,” as they call it, as it continues discussions after this week’s General Assembly and into December, when this GA session wraps up.

Source: Russia Today, 28 Sept 2012

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Comments

Submitted by Heydrich on Mon, 2012-10-01 06:13.

I read the original Fox article and there actually is talk about this at the U.N.

Upon first glance this story smells to me like yet another means whereby the globalists seek to placate the masses as the globalists rape them.

“We will tax ourselves, and give to the poor. So for now, you need to accept more austerity.”

Three quick thoughts…

(1) Fox pitched this story to Fox viewers, who love the UN when it votes to bomb nations and expand imperialism, but hate the UN for everything else.

(2) This story helps perpetuates the myth that money is somehow limited, and that national governments and central banks cannot create more of it, and that all governments, even monetarily sovereign ones, have a “debt problem.” (The author speaks of “developed countries wracked by spiraling levels of government debt.”) Since the masses believe these lies, the masses also believe the lie that monetarily sovereign nations like that USA must “live within their means.” Therefore the masses accept austerity and an ever-worsening depression. (Incidentally, I’d like to know who would collect such taxes and distribute the revenue.)

(3) “The United Nations is at it again:  finding new and “innovative” ways to create global taxes that would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world — especially the U.S. — to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development.”

The developed nations have giant corporations, plus the IMF and World Bank, plus military forces that the One Percent use to extract wealth from the less developed nations. This is okay with Fox viewers, but the above statement is not okay, since it smacks of “world socialism

Hence it seems to me that Fox News is telling its viewers: “You all need to submit to more austerity, plus an ever-worsening depression, plus an ever-widening gap between rich and poor, because the alternative is world socialism!”

This is nonsense for many, many reasons, one of them being that the UN opposes socialism in any form. That's why the U.N. voted to destroy Libya.

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