global arms tax ?

[multi]

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.
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[AweShucks]

Originally Posted by multi

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.

Seeing as how the population of impoverished nations/regions continue to skyrocket out of control with no end in sight. This will never happen Tread water at best.


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

[legion]

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

[daddydirt]

Chirac was reluctant to back a levy on weapons manufacturers in France and elsewhere, but suggested a global tax on firearms purchases made by individuals

hmmmmmm...strict private gun control laws in Europe.....not much tax money going to come from there......i wonder what country this "global tax" is really aimed at?

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.

[legion]

Originally Posted by daddydirt

hmmmmmm...strict private gun control laws in Europe.....not much tax money going to come from there......i wonder what country this "global tax" is really aimed at?

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.

You're on!

a little difference in gun size though

and think about it no more bitching from girlfriend either

[AweShucks]

Originally Posted by toy boy

@aweshucks Thank gawd the U.S. government is doing sooooo much better in Iraq right now

Thank gawd the truth is out on how useless and corrupt the U.N. and it members really are. "I don't exclude the U.S. either" However the U.N. is failing because it has become too large, vetos mean too much, and it has become personal.


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

[Sinner]

Originally Posted by AweShucks

Thank gawd the truth is out on how useless and corrupt the U.N. and it members really are. "I don't exclude the U.S. either" However the U.N. is failing because it has become too large, vetos mean too much, and it has become personal.

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.

[Sinner]

Originally Posted by AweShucks

P.S. It's been in my sig for a long time

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"

[legion]

Originally Posted by AweShucks

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.

Uhm do i understand you correctly when i say the fact that chirac suggested it makes you against it and not the tax itself?

[AweShucks]

Originally Posted by toy boy

Uhm do i understand you correctly when i say the fact that chirac suggested it makes you against it and not the tax itself?

You would be correct to say that I'm against any legislation/tax on firearms "guns" regardless of the person or political figure. Chirac means nothing to me he just happened to have the quote in the above article. Many U.S. politicians have already "mentioned" the same issue on a Federal level here in the U.S.