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U.N. To Tax Americans To Direct Economic, Social, Environmental Development In 3rd World Countries. Video

Saturday, September 29, 2012 4:01
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 If you ask me, the U. N. should start reducing some of the exuberant tax-free salaries and pensions they pay their staff, especially the higher ranked ones.  Someone should also inform them that the U. S. is broke and will need to be a recipient of aid if Obama has 4 more years of his drunken borrowing and spending.

A 1 percent tax on billionaires around the world. A tax on all currency trading in the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound sterling. Another “tiny” tax on all financial transactions, including stock and bond trading, and trading in financial derivatives. New taxes on carbon emissions and on airline tickets. A royalty on all undersea mineral resources extracted more than 100 miles offshore of any nation’s territory.

The United Nations is at it again: finding new and “innovative” ways to create global taxes that would transfer hundreds of billions, and even trillions, of dollars from the rich nations of the world — especially the U.S. — to poorer ones, in line with U.N.-directed economic, social and environmental development.

 The scale of the global sustainable development challenge is unprecedented. The fight against extreme poverty has made great progress under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), but more than 1 billion people continue to live in extreme poverty. Inequality and social exclusion are widening within most countries. As the world population is estimated to rise to 9 billion by 2050 and global GDP to more than US$200 trillion, the world urgently needs to address the sustainable development challenges of ending poverty, increasing social inclusion, and sustaining the planet.

The UN Secretary-General announced the launch of the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) on August 9, 2012.

Over the coming twelve months the Network will be built up to mobilize scientific and technical expertise from academia, civil society, and the private sector in support of sustainable-development problem solving at local, national, and global scales. This Network will accelerate joint learning and help to overcome the compartmentalization of technical and policy work by promoting integrated approaches to the interconnected economic, social, and environmental challenges confronting the world. The SDSN will work closely with United Nations agencies, multilateral financing institutions, as well as other international organizations.

The Network will convene global expert Working Groups on key sustainable development challenges that will identify common solutions and highlight best practices. It will also  provide technical support to the High-level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda.

Over time the SDSN will launch projects to pilot or roll-out solutions to sustainable development challenges and assist countries in developing sustainable long-term development pathways.

The U.N. clearly hopes it can find a way to move ahead. “ Politically, tapping revenue from global resources and raising taxes internationally to address global problems are much more difficult than taxing for purely domestic purposes,” admits an ECOSOC document produced last April. But, it summarizes,  “the time has come to confront the challenge.”

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  • LMAO What are they going to do? Throw us in a FEMA Camp? They are Fools and If they think they are going to get anything from us they better try something different.

  • Here is something digusting: 101st Congress,2nd session: Treaty Document 101-4: COUNCIL OF EUROPE-OECD CONVENTION ON MUTUAL ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANCE IN TAX MATTERS.

  • The U.N. has no authority to tax me; they can just suck it.

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