World Tax

[eyer]

The UN is floating the implementation of a world tax to provide “all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education and housing"...

...it'd be a progressive tax - those who earn more would pay more - and to initially create $40 billion to start the deal off, a minimum tax of .005% would be levied against every financial transaction completed in the world.

The poll's a very simple question: YES if you support the UN mandating this SPF (Social Protection Floor) tax, and then individual countries enforcing, collecting, and remitting to the UN this tax...

...or NO if you either think the UN has no say in taxing anyone, or you don't agree with the specific program, or you think the UN wastes more money than it does good with (like Haiti, where it is estimated that of the $732 million budgeted to relief for the nation, a full two-thirds of that entire amount has actually gone to "the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island."http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/20/uns-massive-haiti-budget-goes-staff/).

 

[Sean Renaud]

Not that specific plan. But I would support something similar if it was properly fleshed out. What you wrote isn't a progressive tax, it's a flat tax. It should be a progressive tax. I'm curious what they consider a transaction for the purposes of this tax as well.

 

[Shagly]

The UN is floating the implementation of a world tax to provide “all needy people with a basic income, healthcare, education and housing"...

...it'd be a progressive tax - those who earn more would pay more - and to initially create $40 billion to start the deal off, a minimum tax of .005% would be levied against every financial transaction completed in the world.

The poll's a very simple question: YES if you support the UN mandating this SPF (Social Protection Floor) tax, and then individual countries enforcing, collecting, and remitting to the UN this tax...

...or NO if you either think the UN has no say in taxing anyone, or you don't agree with the specific program, or you think the UN wastes more money than it does good with (like Haiti, where it is estimated that of the $732 million budgeted to relief for the nation, a full two-thirds of that entire amount has actually gone to "the salary, perks and upkeep of its own personnel, not residents of the devastated island."http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/04/20/uns-massive-haiti-budget-goes-staff/).

It's best to eliminate the existence of the U.N.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I support the idea of ending our funding of the UN, the ungrateful pack of leeches. A lot of it simply goes into waste, fraud and corruption.

It's already too progressive once you start looking at the total we already voluntarily tax ourselves with to support this living affront to humanity...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Like all good taxes this one will end up in the pockets of the UN elites. The UN exists to provide sweet gigs for the 3rd Worlds no-talents.

 

[Liar]

I don't see why tthe UN should be the ones doing stuff like this. Let it do what it actually do sort-of well: being a forum for diplomacy. This sounds like a World Bank gig or something.


Anyway, the big problem with providing the needy with the basics is not financing, it's distribution.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't see why tthe UN should be the ones doing stuff like this. Let it do what it actually do sort-of well: being a forum for diplomacy. This sounds like a World Bank gig or something.


Anyway, the big problem with providing the needy with the basics is not financing, it's distribution.

It's not distribution either.

It's government philosophy; individuals, or groups (be it the tribe, the religion, the needy...,).

Where you have bad government, need goes up. That's why we have a food-stamp President...

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't see why tthe UN should be the ones doing stuff like this. Let it do what it actually do sort-of well: being a forum for diplomacy. This sounds like a World Bank gig or something.


Anyway, the big problem with providing the needy with the basics is not financing, it's distribution.

While you're not wrong, financing is currently how we decide distribution no?

 

[semen4her]

I support the destruction of the usa.

 

[eyer]

Seems like Obama favors a world tax...

...his director of the national economic council proclaimed on C-Span today that:

we need a global minimum tax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gO5B1378P54#!

Meanwhile...

...the President revealed today the most expensive federal budget proposal in American history.

 

[eyer]

Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433), introduced by Senator Barak Obama on December 7, 2007...

To require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the [U.N.] Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Cost estimates on Obama's proposal in 2007 were 0.7% of gross national product, or an additional $845 billion over 13 years in addition to existing foreign aid expenditures.

With billions of people living on just dollars a day around the world, global poverty remains one of the greatest challenges and tragedies the international community faces," said Senator Obama. "It must be a priority of American foreign policy to commit to eliminating extreme poverty and ensuring every child has food, shelter, and clean drinking water. As we strive to rebuild America's standing in the world, this important bill will demonstrate our promise and commitment to those in the developing world. Our commitment to the global economy must extend beyond trade agreements that are more about increasing corporate profits than about helping workers and small farmers everywhere.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

So if we don't pay, do we, like, get kicked out of the world!?!

How would that work exactly?

 

[Liar]

While you're not wrong, financing is currently how we decide distribution no?

Late reply but, I didn't mean distribution as in "distribution of wealth", more like, "how do we get the good stuff to the needy without running out of gas/running out of road/running into the warlords on the way?"

 

[Liar]

So if we don't pay, do we, like, get kicked out of the world!?!

How would that work exactly?

Why do you think Newt wants to go to the moon?

 

[koalabear]

Would the UN fix the poor as good as they fixed Africa?

 

[NeonSubtlety]

Clearly an unbiased representation of the issue, lol