World Health Organization Moving Ahead on Billions in Internet and Other Taxes

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The World Health Organization is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose billions of dollars in global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.

The aim of its taxing plans is to raise "tens of billions" of dollars for WHO that would be used to radically reorganize the research, development, production and distribution of medicines around the world, with greater emphasis on drugs for communicable diseases in poor countries.

The irony is that the WHO push to take a huge bite out of global consumers comes as the organization is having a management crisis of its own, juggling finances, failing to use its current resources efficiently, or keep its costs under control — and it doesn't expect to show positive results in managing those challenges until a year from now, at the earliest.

Fox News initially reported last January on the "suite of proposals" for "new and innovative sources of funding," prepared by a 25-member panel of medical experts, academics and health care bureaucrats, when it was presented of a meeting of WHO's 34-member Executive Board in Geneva.

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Chief among them:
• a "digital" or "bit" tax on Internet activity, which could raise "tens of billions of U.S. dollars";
• a 10 percent tax on international arms deals, "worth about $5 billion per annum";
• a financial transaction tax, citing a Brazilian levy that was raising some $20 billion per year until it was canceled (for unspecified reasons);
• an airline tax that already exists in 13 countries and has raised some $1 billion.

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I can see our current socialist government going along with this. Of course, they'd likely make the tax higher so they could take their cut.

[The Village Idiot]

1. When did they get the power to tax?

2. When did they get the jurisdiction and sovereignty to tax us?

3. Why do I think 80% of these proposed taxes would be paid by us?

[DumbAss Tanker]

1. When did they get the power to tax?

2. When did they get the jurisdiction and sovereignty to tax us?

3. Why do I think 80% of these proposed taxes would be paid by us?

They don't have that power, it would require a law to be passed in the US imposing it for that to happen, our current Congress is stupid enough to do it so hopefully they will have too much other crap going on to get to it this year, and I think 80% is a lowball figure.

[RightCoast]

If the UN starts taxing the world they'll never go away.

[JohnnyReb]

If the UN starts taxing the world they'll never go away.

Well, they have been a pox upon the world.....why change now.

Maybe bush/Cheney could have a plane fly into the bottom floor one day.

....or have a hurricane flood the place. ....or just disappear it.

All doable with the VRWC machinery.