According to foxnews.com:
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. (more redistribution of wealth)
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. . . .
. . . . WHO's so-called Expert Working Group has also suggested asking rich countries to set aside fixed portions of their gross domestic product to finance the shift in worldwide research and development, as well as asking cash-rich developing nations like China, India or Venezuela to pony up more of the money.
These would also add billions in additional funds to international health care for the future — as much as $7.4 billion yearly from rich countries, and as much as $12.1 billion from low- and middle-income nations.
But the taxation ideas draw the most interest. The expert panel cites a number of possible examples. Among them:
—a 10 per cent tax on the international arms trade, "which might net about $5 billion per annum";
—a "digital tax or 'hit' tax." The report says the levy "could yield tens of billions of U.S. dollars from a broad base of users";
—a financial transaction tax. The report approvingly cites a levy in Brazil that charged 0.38 percent on bills paid online and on unspecified "major withdrawals." The report says the Brazilian tax was raising an estimated $20 billion per year until it was cancelled for unspecified reasons.
The panel concludes that "taxes would provide greater certainty once in place than voluntary contributions," even as the report urges WHO's executive board to promote all of the alternatives, and more, to support creation of a "global health research and innovation coordination and funding mechanism" for the planned revolution in medical research, development and distribution.
. . . .After WHO issued repeated warnings of a serious H1N1 influenza pandemic over the past two years, countries such as Britain and France ordered hundreds of millions of dollars worth of vaccine, only to decide that they were unnecessary, leading to mass cancellations of orders. WHO is reviewing how it handled the crisis.
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Bad timing WHO. . . .The whole world is on the verge of economic collapse and you want to introduce "WORLD-WIDE SOCIALISM" by taking even more from the wealthier nations and giving to the poorer nations. . . .
This will go over about like the Global Warming Socialist Conference held in Copenhagen last December. . . .Evidently WHO agrees with Rahm Emanuel (President Obama's Whitehouse Chief of Staff)
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before."
WHO hyped up the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus and couldn't even predict within a few million people the results of this supposedly worldwide catastrophic pandemic.
14,160 died World wide in 2009 (RIP)
Back in May, 2009, I wrote: 30,000 Americans die of the normal everday kind of flu every year. WHAT? Why does this not get the attention it deserves. 30,000 of our fellow Americans die of the flu each year. Where is the CDC (Center for Diesease Control) and WHO (World Health Organization) when an outbreak is affecting Americans, but is considered a pandemic when the H1N1 (swine flu) kills a couple hundred in Mexico. Maybe that just proves the argument against "Socialized Medicine"
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Here in America we have many states that are on the verge of bankruptcy and are just itching for a government bailout.
According to rushlimbaugh.com:
Here are the states that are in debt and how much: California, $14.4 billion. I actually think that they're up to $19 billion now in debt. Illinois, $12.8 billion. New Jersey, eight billion. New York, $6.8 billion. Florida, $4.7 billion.
9.7% of American adults were unemployed at the end of 2009." It was ten percent is what they're talking about here. Anyway, "African-Americans and Hispanics saw rates of 15.5% and 12.4%, respectively," and among young people in the black community, it's 25% unemployment.
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So I guess WHO can just kiss our A$$. . . .
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html
