what more can we say about beggars? On Jan 15, 3:23 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/> WHO Scheming > to Tax Internet and Banking > Transactions<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/who-scheming-to-tax-int...> > *doctorbulldog <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/author/doctorbulldog/>* | > 15 January, 2010 at 1:39 pm | Categories: > Economics<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/economics/>, > Money <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/money/>, Obama > Sucks<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/obama-sucks/>, > United Nations <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/united-nations/>, > politics <http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/category/politics/> | > URL:http://wp.me/p1NPg-5on > > *With Our Dark Overlord holding America's reins, I'd keep a close on this > one:* > > *U.N.'s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet > Activity* > *By George Russell - > FoxNews<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html> > * > > 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. > > 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. > > [...] > > Add a comment to this > post<http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/who-scheming-to-tax-int...> > <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gocomments/doctorbulldog.wordpress.com...> > <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godelicious/doctorbulldog.wordpress.co...> > <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/gostumble/doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/...> > <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/godigg/doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/20731/> > <http://feeds.wordpress.com/1.0/goreddit/doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/2...> > > [image: WordPress] > > WordPress.com | Thanks for flying with WordPress! > > Manage > Subscriptions<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=dc6bd5cdb9344eeac78d3235c3f6cb6d&;...>| > One-click > Unsubscribe<http://subscribe.wordpress.com/?key=dc6bd5cdb9344eeac78d3235c3f6cb6d&;....>| > Publish text, photos, music, and videos by email using our Post > by Email <http://support.wordpress.com/post-by-email/> feature. | Signup > with WordPress.com <http://wordpress.com/signup/?ref=email>
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