And they’re doing it in the daylight. The UN, through the WHO, is drafting a “suite of proposals” to tax the internet in general, and online transactions in particular, in order to provide a separate source of “tens of billions” for the WHO. Now, who could possibly argue with more money for health?
The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations’ public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.
The aim of its taxing plans is to raise “tens of billions” of dollars for WHO that would be used to radically reorganize the research, development, production and distribution of medicines around the world, with greater emphasis on drugs for communicable diseases in poor countries.
The irony is that the WHO push to take a huge bite out of global consumers comes as the organization is having a management crisis of its own, juggling finances, failing to use its current resources efficiently, or keep its costs under control — and it doesn’t expect to show positive results in managing those challenges until a year from now, at the earliest.
That’s not the worst of it, by any means. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that once any UN agency has established the means to tax directly, there will be more, and more, and more.
The story lists item after item of corruption and mismanagement in the WHO, but even that misses the bigger picture. This is presented as morally untouchable. And once it’s established, the IPCC, and UNRWA, all the rest of the whorehouse will be able to take your money directly, without any fig leaf of accountability.
Don’t let the bastards do it.
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