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Europe
Chirac to push for international tax to fight poverty
2004-09-20
French President Jacques Chirac will put forward ideas for an international tax scheme scam that would help build a 50-billion-dollar war chest to fight poverty during a 55-nation conference on economic development opening Monday in New York.
Posted by:TS(vice girl)

#7  I wonder how much damage the dissolution of Oil-for-Food did to France's moribund economy. This sounds too much like a replacement. I suggest that we enact this tax - as long as it is applied only to the sale of French wine.
Posted by: Super Hose   2004-09-21 3:38:06 AM  

#6  Money for Bureaucrats Poverty---the Ultimate Scam. That plan is fine with me as long as the US does not have to pay into the slush fund kitty. Our foreign aid bill for the past three years has been about $9 billion, so I would say that we have paid our fair share. Of course some of it goes to Israel and other countries for defense, but, hey, that's the times we live in.
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2004-09-20 9:05:00 PM  

#5  Jacky - how bout lowering EU trade barriers on food imports from Africa? A few million Africans kept down in poverty thereby. Trade, not aid.
Posted by: lex   2004-09-20 7:25:10 PM  

#4  This is nonthing but the Socialist System on a Global scale.

Kerry and Hillary's wet dream.

The worldwide Welfare State!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-20 7:20:42 PM  

#3  Since Chirac, among other socialists, has found that their "poor" is breaking the bank...this is pure and simple a money grab aimed at the USA. And, if the UN decides what constitutes "poor" it will be every nation, but the USA.
Posted by: RN   2004-09-20 6:32:20 PM  

#2  I presume that the program would be administered by UN bureaucrats. And the money would be funnelled through French banks. Just like the Iraqi Oil for Food Program. Hmmmmm ...
Posted by: ajackson   2004-09-20 6:25:07 PM  

#1  Oily Jacques - Loose with other peoples money.
Posted by: BigEd   2004-09-20 6:12:41 PM  

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