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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 11:57 AM
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World Health Organization wants global tax on Internet, banking
How did we miss this? No wonder some people are paranoid about NWO?

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/285788

The United Nation's World Health Organization called for governments around the world to impose a global consumer tax on things like Internet activity and paying bills online.

In order to raise tens of billions of dollars, the UN’s World Health Organization is urging governments around the world to institute a global consumer tax on Internet activity and simple everyday tasks such as conducting online bill payments on your bank’s website, according to Fox News. The sole purpose for these billions of dollars is for development of drugs, research, development and manufacturing capabilities in developing nations.

The idea was put forth by a 25-member panel that is made up of academics, bureaucrats in the health care industry and medical experts who have been discussing new sources of funding for innovation in the medical sector.

However, the indirect consumer tax is only one of the many proposals being discussed for financing the global medical industry. The initiative will be debated in the WHO’s supervisory Executive Board at its biannual meeting in Geneva, which contains 34 members.
The Expert Working Group has also suggested in asking rich, developed countries and cash-rich developing nations to set aside a certain percentage of their Gross Domestic Product to finance worldwide research and development.


So, now we get TAXED to have all the pharmaceutical jobs shipped overseas, and we still get stuck paying many, many times greater prices for their drugs?

How stupid does this sound?
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 12:07 PM
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1. I don't know about the rest of the article but most of the drugs I and
my daughter take are manufactured off shore already.
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Celebration Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-24-10 12:10 PM
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2. Why would we consent
to this tax, when our own budget deficit is enormous? A global tax? That's crazy!

And we already pay so much more for drugs!
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