U.N.’s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity

• Friday, January 15, 2010 3:01:27 PM · by Red in Blue PA · 39 replies

  Foxnews ^ | 1/15/2010 | Staff

  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…

U.N.’s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity

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