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| Chirac to push for international tax to fight poverty |
| 2004-09-19 |
| Posted by:Sock Puppet of Doom |
| #16 Viewing how France directly sponsors Palestinian terrorism, Chirac's ridiculous proposal is just another line or two in the lengthy suicide note that Europe is so rashly composing. Between providing safe haven to terrorists, actively courting a military alliance with communist China and bleeding their collective taxpayers white with lavish social welfare programs, Europe seems to have lost sight of how sane people might find Chirac's idiotic notion downright offensive. Chirac's plan is nothing more than an open invitation for countries with entrenched corruption and graft to side-step all responsibility for their own reform and suckle at yet another bloated udder of socialist redistribution of wealth. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-09-19 4:34:46 PM |
| #15 Great idea there, Jack. You go tax them deadbeat "citizen of the world" guys. Let us know how it works out for ya... |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-09-19 4:27:46 PM |
| #14 SPo'D - Unfortunately, thanx to the French electorate, he's protected by his office - until 2007. THEN they'll prolly send his ass to jail. Perhaps Sabine Herold will be available... |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-19 2:27:22 PM |
| #13 I just thought this was so rich, just like the UN tax the Un would like to impose. Of course you know who would pay the brunt of the Tax. Message to Kofi and Jacques Stuff it. Isn't it about time Msr. Chirac was arrested for his current and past graft France? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-19 2:16:51 PM |
| #12 And if we won't fork over the money, whose army are you going to send to enforce it, Jackie-baby? The one you've been using for decades - ours? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. FOAD, ChIraq. Moron. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-19 12:53:44 PM |
| #11 One can only hope. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-19 12:51:18 PM |
| #10 If Chirac is looking for a good way to get the US to quit the UN and boot it out of NY, then this is a sure fire winner. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-19 12:31:50 PM |
| #9 P.S. -- 50 billion dollars into 1.2 billion poor people is less than $42 each. And that's if the bureaucrats and their co-conspirators don't get a share. Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-19 12:13:29 PM |
| #8 My god i'm stunned and really mad about this - atom bomb those fuckin French fuckwits now , they are part of the jihad against the west |
| Posted by: Shep UK 2004-09-19 12:12:05 PM |
| #7 We have plenty of good charities in the U.S. that can help the world's poor without the U.N., Kofi's son, and Chirac taking a share. Chirac had better stop thinking about putting his hand in my pocket or he's going to lose a few fingers. He's obviously a bit doped up from all the greenhouse gas methane he inhales by having his head up his arse. The Cold War isn't over, it has just shifted from the Soviet communists to the U.N./EU communists. Get these would-be world-dominating central-planning delusions-of-grandeur communists out of New York! |
| Posted by: Tom 2004-09-19 12:09:09 PM |
| #6 Jacques, The situation here is really hard. Please wire some funds. Votre ami, Yasser. p.s. Can you give couple million to Suha --- just to tide her over till the end of the month? |
| Posted by: Anonymous6092 2004-09-19 11:22:19 AM |
| #5 Dot com named it-extortion. The proposal is a repackaging of an old economic Edsel: you are obliged to sacrifice your assets in order for the workers of the world to escape poverty. Raising charitable funds to help downtrodden peoples is a good act; enforcing wide-spread taxation, in the current anti-American international environment, is at least taxation without consent but also arguably an act of aggression. No attention is going to be paid to resources and assets of countries, which means that nations' strengths remain untapped and no incentive for internal reform is employed. Reduction? Give us money (or we will continue to obstruct you in international affairs; we might anyway). Of course, you must realize that we assert our right to ignore corruption as a big factor in world poverty. If your manner is pleasing, we'll consider inviting you to our next soiree. |
| Posted by: jules 2 2004-09-19 11:21:05 AM |
| #4 The only proposal I wouldn't object to is the international lottery. Lotteries are voluntary taxes paid by idiots. Perfect. Bwahahahaha! The only problem is there'd be a lot more Soroses stumbling around here-and-there causing chaos. Best to limit pay-outs to $1m. |
| Posted by: Bulldog 2004-09-19 10:58:49 AM |
| #3 Does anyone think that France would pay its fair share of such a tax? Or is this their way to get us (US, UK) to pay for their social programs? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2004-09-19 10:56:44 AM |
| #2 I got a nice Chevy S-10 and I can make time for about a week to help the UN load its sh*t onto a freighter bound for Paris. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-19 10:49:26 AM |
| #1 Lol! Looking for a replacement scheme for the Oil for Food Scam, Chirac? Lol! Oh yeah, I'm there... send my US tax dollars immediately. Actually, this is far from funny. The disturbing and infuriating aspect of this moronic "proposal" is that the parasites proposing this idiocy will prolly "pass" it, then attempt to extract the tax from dissenting countries, such as the US, in trade policies or other similar measures. In effect, it is extortion on a global scale - and highly likely to be extremely vulnerable to graft. Almost makes me want to play the isolationist card. Almost. |
| Posted by: .com 2004-09-19 10:46:50 AM |