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Old 01-16-2010, 09:24 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Jetsfan View Post
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.

As with "climate change" at Copenhagen, the WHO's experts see that health inequity as a malady that innovative and permanent forms of global taxation are just the right thing to help cure.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html
While I understand the desire to for a tax to pay for healthcare in poor countries, how does taxing internet use make sense? At least tax healthcare use....
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