U.N.’s World Health Organization Wants Tax on Internet

[bludex]

I hope not:

Fox News Friday, January 15, 2010:

U.N.'s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity

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.
Such a scheme could raise "tens of billions of dollars" on behalf of the United Nations' public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research, development and manufacturing capabilities, among other things, to the developing world.
The multibillion-dollar "indirect consumer tax" is only one of a "suite of proposals" for financing the rapid transformation of the global medical industry that will go before WHO's 34-member supervisory Executive Board at its biannual meeting in Geneva.


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[draggar]

WTF?

Yes, let's tax everyone for a private entity.

(Well, we technically already do)

[Melab]

Pretty sure this would the first tax ever imposed by th UN because as far as I know they get their funding from contributions from member states, not anything like a tax.

[Banned: dn-101]

Or the money could be channeled to beautify the Nazi cemeteries desecrated by really bad people:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28927