UN considers blanket internet tax to fund WHO

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.

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This scares the hell out of me to be honest. For many reasons. It has become patently obvious that the UN has an agenda to redistribute wealth in the world. Primarily to take the money from Western economies and redistribute it to “developing” nations. If you read the texts of the various treaties that the UN was trying to get signed at Copenhagen in December, all of them had exactly the same agenda. To tax the West for using so much carbon, and give that money to “developing” nations who have not gone through the same industrial growth.

Taxing banking and the use of the Internet is even more insidious. The internet has become the most powerful communication tool in history. The rate at which the adoption of the internet has exploded in the past 15 to 20 years has changed modern life even more than the printing press did. Nearly everything in our modern world relies on the internet in one way or another. When was the last time you mailed in a cheque to pay a bill in New Zealand? Or used physical cash to pay for something you’d bought on TradeMe or eBay or countless retailers? Even banking has had a huge shift from branches to offering pretty much their entire services over the internet.

I find it abhorrent that people within our modern society think that we should pay developing nations because we have successfully built our economies and our society. Those other countries can achieve the same results if they had the same focus and desire to. Unfortunately, too many of those “developing” countries are run by despots (Such as the Democratic Republic of Congo or Burma/Myanmar) who siphon any money they get to their own coffers instead of using them to help the nation grow or advance. Too many of those countries are so busy fighting wars amongst themselves that no amount of money is going to achieve anything except provide more targets to get blown up and shot to hell.

Rather than trying to redistribute wealth to “developing” nations, we should be focusing our efforts on breaking these nations free of dictatorships and teaching the people to develop their own technology and society in a way that will benefit them. As cliche as it is, the ancient proverb of “Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life.” is very much true for all these nations.

Racism is a huge issue in many of these countries. Look at what is happening in Sudan and Darfur for the perfect example of what I’m talking about. The man most likely to win the presidential elections in Sudan is also one of the most wanted men in the world. He is responsible for atrocious war crimes against humanity. His orders have killed many hundreds of thousands. Possibly millions if the truth be told.

This crazy agenda of the UN to redistribute wealth from the West into these kinds of “developing” nations will achieve nothing until the entire way of life of many of these countries is corrected in such a way that the whole population will benefit.

Until that happens, all we’re doing is giving a man a fish each day.