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

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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.

The idea is the most lucrative — and probably the most controversial — of a number of schemes proposed by a 25-member panel of medical experts, academics and health care bureaucrats who have been working for the past 14 months at WHO's behest on "new and innovative sources of funding" to accomplish major shifts in the production of medical R&D.

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more tax!i left my construction bus. for maint. job 2 1/2 years ago (more secure job then const.) last year cut to 32 hrs. per week.this year they tell us the same.i have afamily of five.i drive over 50 miles one way to work.this is the way things will be for several more years.more tax not the answer,our country is rapidly falling into a poverty level that nobody has ever scene before.in the 30's there was no gov.asist programs.take away these and see what happens.tax will not help.we will pay more then ones in control will will have it all.
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Did a internet search -- found nothing on this from Big Three -- FoxNews only one reporting this. Main stream media should be penalized or fined for refusing to give equal time to opposing views. There is a law that says, in effect, if media gives free air time to one political candidate or party, they must also give equal time to the opposition. This law, if looked at carefully, also covers the media's reporting of political issues -- both sides of an issue are usually along partisan lines rather than bipartisan. This being the case, then CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and their internet sites are breaking the law. However, with Obama, the main stream media has chosen the gutter rather than taking the high road of unbiased reporting. Main stream medias' hands-off approach to this administration's unpopular agenda has actually helped the American people see "the conspiracy of silence" they have propagated and nurtured in their attempt to protect the first half-black president. What they fail to see is that they have done more harm than good in their one-sided view of this man's socialist programs.
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