UN wants global tax on internet activity

[Jetsfan]

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

[CaptainCrunch]

Well you know that they need more money for corrupt bureaucrats to skim into their numbered accounts.

This economy has been tough on these guys too and they need to make up for their shortfalls.

The UN is in serious need of reform.

[Devils'Advocate]

Behind all of the effort is the "persistent and growing concern," as the expert's paper puts it, that "the benefits of the advances in health technology are not reaching the poor," which the paper calls "one of the more egregious manifestations of inequity."

B@stards. B@stards all.

I don't think we need to wait until people are hit by an earthquake to give money towards seeing the poor get the medical help that they need.

[mikey_the_redneck]

I am getting tired of all these global a$$holes trying to come up with creative new ways to take our money......
The WHO is becoming a joke in my eyes....

I like this part. Quote

"The WHO scheme to transfer impressive amounts of money, technology, patents and manufacturing ability to the developing world in a global battle to conquer disease looks similar in many respects to the calls for huge transfers of wealth and technology that were at the heart of the just-failed U.N.-sponsored conference on lowering greenhouse gas emissions at Copenhagen."

I would be extremely disappointed if our political leaders signed on to soemthing this ######ed.

[Devils'Advocate]

I noticed that quote too. Obviously the link is from Fox news who wanted to paint the initiative in as bad a light as possible while proclaiming Copenhagen a failure.

[Resolute 14]

As stupid as Fox news is, a lot of people were saying the same things about Kyoto long before. Wealth redistribution schemes wrapped in the veneer of something "noble" so that the people who stand to profit the most can use guilt to force the people they are stealing from to agree to the scheme.

[Pinner]

It's all part of the "One World Govt." plan. Giving monies to the third world never seems to get the help to the people, dose it... Apparently the "text" donations won't make it to Haiti for at least 90 days... nice.

[dj_patm]

Now Im not saying I want to do this or support this but, if you want to cure almost every single problem on the planet? All you have to do is let the poor, weak and meager die. Just like they would if there was no aid or programs helping them.

Cause of every single man made problem = Over population = Biggest cause of overpopulation = Societies unwillingness to let those who should die, die.

Disabled, poor and sick make up a gigantic part of the population that just a few years ago were not able to survive hence not nearly the same amount of problems.


Again, I DO NOT SUPPORT THAT MINDSET, but I'm guaranteeing that until something like that is put into place, overpopulation will run rampant and crazy.

[3 Justin 3]

Well then prepare the nukes.

[SebC]

A tax on the Internet is a tax on knowledge. Terrible idea.

Not that I'm at all concerned that this would actually be implemented.

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by Jetsfan

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

That's awesome!! What could possibly go wrong?

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by dj_patm

Cause of every single man made problem = Over population = Biggest cause of overpopulation = Societies unwillingness to let those who should die, die.

.

At this point, life>all else, so health care will continue to take up a larger and larger portion of our wealth. At what point does that end? How much is to much to spend on someone to keep them alive? How do you define "who should die?" I think a better way to put that is overpopulation due to our high value on life has led to almost every man made problem

[HOZ]

Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist

At this point, life>all else, so health care will continue to take up a larger and larger portion of our wealth. At what point does that end? How much is to much to spend on someone to keep them alive? How do you define "who should die?" I think a better way to put that is overpopulation due to our high value on life has led to almost every man made problem

Canada is far from over populated. So who's healthcare? India's? China's?

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by Jetsfan

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....

[McG]

i'd like a tax on stupid UN ideas. for every plan that didn't work out, those that proposed it should pay an amount equal to the waste of the program itself, to those that the program was designed to assist. i'm pretty sure that we could end many world maladies with this sort of initiative.

[Street Pharmacist]

Originally Posted by HOZ

Canada is far from over populated. So who's healthcare? India's? China's?

I'm speaking globally and was more speaking in terms of value of life as it relates to overpopulation. If we want to bring that idea in relation to Canada, think of it this way: Healthcare expenditure is noww more than 50% of the provincial bubdget. Though the exact numbers escape me, it was somewhere in the 20-25% range not that long ago. Not only that, but it is growing exponentially. At what point is the cost too much? When do we say it's too expensive, and who decides?


NB The above post I made was more addressing the "who should die" part of the post I quoted as it's a subject I am somewhat passionate about. The more I think about it, the more healthcare has very little to do with overpopulation.