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UN Wants a 10% Global Tax to Pay for New ‘Shared Responsibility’ Program to Address Coronavirus Pandemic
2020-04-04
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[GatewayPundit] The United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, has announced the creation of a fund for addressing the global coronavirus pandemic ‐ and he is simultaneously asking nations to contribute the equivalent of at least 10 percent of the annual income of the entire planet to a massive "human-centered, innovative and coordinated stimulus package" that would be administered at the international level.



Although Guterres doesn’t state it explicitly, he seems to be connecting the new fund, which he calls a "dedicated COVID-19 Response and Recovery Fund," with the massive stimulus package plan, announcing both measures in the same press release.

If countries were to accept the plan, the United Nations or some similar coordinating agency would be given the equivalent of approximately 8.7 trillion USD, an unprecedented amount that would be 2,900 times greater than the UN’s annual budget of 3 billion USD.

The proposed plan would effectively place a global agency, presumably the UN itself, in charge of propping up the economies of the world during the coronavirus crisis, placing it in charge of 10% of global income.
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#15  Tax China that 10%. It's there turn to pay through the nose for awhile.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-04-04 17:34  

#14  Ummm, Tony? Which letter of the word NO do you not understand? The "N," or the "O"?

I'll be happy to explain them both.

After I do that, you can FOAD.
Posted by: Barbara   2020-04-04 16:26  

#13  Sorry, Tony. Try what swksvolFF said.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-04-04 13:14  

#12  How many years, no, decades has the UN resisted any attempt to have any public financial audit? FOAD.
Posted by: magpie   2020-04-04 12:50  

#11  How about we first have a full audit of the UN. Anyone found to have been stealing money, handing it to friends etc, you know the usual crap, will be publicly executed. As will whoever they gave the money to. Then if there's any UN people left, we can then tell them, "ESAD"
Posted by: Silentbrick   2020-04-04 12:11  

#10  Or, litigate damages from China.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-04-04 11:26  

#9  I think we need the money that we give to the UN more during this crisis. Might go on a very long time. Defund the UN and keep that money in the US.
Posted by: DarthVader   2020-04-04 10:12  

#8  FOAD!
Posted by: 3dc   2020-04-04 10:10  

#7  The fact that they are using the pandemic to push for this should get it an automatic 'Go F Yourself' just as an automatic reaction.
And a complete defunding of the U.N. as a measured response.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-04-04 10:09  

#6  What I was thinking, Beau. Their Lunch Buffet stocks must be getting low.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2020-04-04 08:35  

#5  + 10% for his friends
Posted by: Lex   2020-04-04 06:17  

#4  A fat socialist wants other people's money? Ha ha ha - good one, buddy!
Posted by: Raj   2020-04-04 06:12  

#3  Can fuck right off...
The uks inter nhs has under performed.
Thia would be pure graft
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-04-04 04:50  

#2  That will buy a lot of Blue Cheese for UN staffers.
Posted by: Beau   2020-04-04 02:54  

#1  Ah..... no.
Posted by: Alistaire Tingle9882   2020-04-04 01:50  

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