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2003-10-30 International

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Posted by rg117 2003-10-30 5:41:06 PM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Don't expect any refunds, folks. It's not the UN way.

Posted by tu3031 2003-10-30 5:50:40 PM|| 2003-10-30 5:50:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#2 Wow, who should I make my first 'tax' check out to? Mr. I.P. Freely? The day the U.N. taxes me is the day I start fighting.

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC CA Chapter) 2003-10-30 5:58:55 PM|| 2003-10-30 5:58:55 PM|| Front Page Top

#3 Like many UN initiatives, this is a solution looking for a problem. Welfare states get to reduce tax competition with non-welfare states. Thanks but no thanks. Can you see China agreeing with this one? I don't. This is something only the EU could love - I suspect developing countries will stay far, far away from this, given their use of tax incentives to lure foreign investment.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2003-10-30 6:02:38 PM|| 2003-10-30 6:02:38 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 As if we needed further proof the UN is in-fucking-sane....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut 2003-10-30 6:25:30 PM|| 2003-10-30 6:25:30 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 remember the phrase:
"No taxation without representation"? We do...and we aren't represented in the General Assembly. I'd like to see this become a question to GWB and the Dem candidates in the coming election

Posted by Frank G 2003-10-30 7:38:45 PM|| 2003-10-30 7:38:45 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 Kofi sees that things are not going good for the UN in the international security business, so he is branching out, looking for ~~suckers~~ opportunities. Nice try, Kofi. You can get together with your buddy Chiraq and see if this turd will float.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-10-30 7:52:08 PM|| 2003-10-30 7:52:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Everyone should verify where their representatives stand on this issue. Bring this idea to the floor of Congress and there will be a national hissy fit that will make the California recall look tame. We're talking tar and feathers.

Posted by Super Hose 2003-10-30 8:02:57 PM|| 2003-10-30 8:02:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 I agree this is total crap, but I'm not sure I understand Frank G's comment about us not being represented in the General Assembly. The US has a UN Ambassador that represents us in the General Assembly.

Posted by Yank 2003-10-30 8:07:53 PM|| 2003-10-30 8:07:53 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Okay, call the clans.

That's clans NMM. Not Klan (D)

Posted by Shipman 2003-10-30 8:49:11 PM|| 2003-10-30 8:49:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 I think what Frank G means is that we will always be outvoted in the UN General Assembly, even though we pay at least 25% of the UN budget, and ALL of the diplo's parking tickets, so to speak.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-10-30 8:58:02 PM|| 2003-10-30 8:58:02 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 on the money AP, thks

Posted by Frank G 2003-10-30 9:29:39 PM|| 2003-10-30 9:29:39 PM|| Front Page Top

#12 "But there are a lot of sloppy, messy tax issues out there." Wall said the proposed organisation would act as a forum to help countries spell out their own standards and principles so that they could better coordinate tax policies. One issue, for example, would be corporations who "play countries off against each other" to get the best tax rates when deciding where to build new factories â a matter he said was crucial for developing nations.

Oh yeah, sounds innocuous enough. Anyone want to bet that as time goes on, this little organization would morph into something more insidious?

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2003-10-30 9:29:41 PM|| 2003-10-30 9:29:41 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 Like the Bishop of Kirkuk said, the UN is dead. We need to tell Kofi, preferably while he's on top of the building, waiting for a helicopter to land. The "no taxation without representation" wasn't just that we didn't have representatives in Parlaiment, but that we had no say in how the money raised was being spent. We're on the verge of a tax revolt in this nation as it is. Something like this could be the final straw to push a large percentage of the population over the edge. Between this crap and "Internet taxes", the American people are about to be confronted with a horrendous soaking, as our government tries to get our tax level up there equivalent with those of Europe. We don't need those ruinous taxes, we don't want those taxes, and we won't stand for those taxes.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-10-30 9:36:58 PM|| [http://users.codenet.net/mweather/default.htm] 2003-10-30 9:36:58 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 AP--don't EVEN get me started about the Diplo plates when I lived in NYC taking all the scarce/expensive parking spaces--not to mention a few citizens killed--one on Park Ave doing 80 mph

Posted by NotMikeMoore 2003-10-30 11:12:37 PM|| 2003-10-30 11:12:37 PM|| Front Page Top

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