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View Poll Results: do you support the idea of an arms global arms tax ? | |||
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22-09-04, 01:34 AM | #1 |
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global arms tax ?
French President Jacques Chirac is the latest leader to call for the imposition of an international tax to help fight poverty.
Speaking at the United Nations in New York, Chirac praised a report prepared by a French working group that proposed a global tax be levied on arms sales and some financial transactions. The report contains "technically realistic and economically rational solutions," said Chirac, who joined forces with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to push the anti-poverty agenda. They will attempt to push forward the plan with the goal of cutting in half the number of people in poverty by 2015, as United Nations leaders pledged in 2000. A declaration signed by 110 countries urged governments to consider the report. more.. |
22-09-04, 05:33 AM | #2 | |
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And then there was Somalia that worked out rather well now didn't it. Oil for food > Iraq < Billions of $$$$$$$$$ gone!!!! No food for the people either! Yep the U.N. has my trust and confidence on this matter It'll never happen
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22-09-04, 07:05 AM | #3 |
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Oh what a surprise that America is against this one.
By now they are the largest arms dealer in the world and since they have great trouble to pay their fees to the U.N. in the first place, I don't think that some additional cash will make the flow of that money any easier Yet they claim a seat on the permanent counsel @aweshucks Thank gawd the U.S. government is doing sooooo much better in Iraq right now
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22-09-04, 09:16 AM | #4 | |
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i wonder if France would rally behind a proposed global tax on individual wine consumption, or how Brazil would react to a tax on coffee drinkers. let's tax legalized prostitution in The Netherlands as well TB, "Get a Blowjob-Feed a Hungry Kid" sounds like a winning slogan. |
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22-09-04, 11:33 AM | #5 | |
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a little difference in gun size though and think about it no more bitching from girlfriend either
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22-09-04, 11:35 AM | #6 | |
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Actually the main reason I'm against this is....... "at Chirac's suggestion – a tax on gun purchases by individuals. " We have been fighting gun legislation for years here in the U.S. Yes I'm a gun "firearm" owner and avid sportsman and proud of it. P.S. It's been in my sig for a long time
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22-09-04, 12:39 PM | #7 | |
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So true....just have to look to Sudan for proof, there has been 50,000 non-Arab people killed so far and 1.5 million refugees. The Sudan government has made deals with China and Russia to veto any UN sanction proposal. China runs most of the Sudanese oil operations and Russia sells Sudan over a billion dollars worth of weapons.
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22-09-04, 12:58 PM | #8 | |
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Quote I like, going way back---- "Rome remained free for four hundred years and Sparta eight hundred, although their citizens were armed all that time; but many other states that have been disarmed have lost their liberties in less than forty years." - Niccolo Machiavelli, 16th Century Italian Political Theorist and "Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mahtma Gandhi, Indian Political Leader Anyways...I voted "no"
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22-09-04, 01:18 PM | #9 | |
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Uhm do i understand you correctly when i say the fact that chirac suggested it makes you against it and not the tax itself?
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