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Originally posted by Wrabbit2000
Originally posted by stanguilles7
reply to post by Golf66
Your argument is that the UN is going to force countries to pay a tax.
But that is false, and nothing in the article you site proves otherwise.
Countries may choose to implement a tax, based on a recommendation from the UN. The US may more may not choose to implement these taxes, but the UN will not be enforcing anything. So every claim you have made is false false false.
While it's absolutely true that the UN cannot legally FORCE any nation to pay anything, ever....It doesn't have to and not every nation needs forced.
The Security Council core is pretty willing and the rest of the world gets aid from those 5 in one form or another.
The upcoming United Nations environmental conference on sustainable development will consider a breathtaking array of carbon taxes, transfers of trillions of dollars from wealthy countries to poor ones, and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement, according to stunning UN documents....
and new spending programs to guarantee that populations around the world are protected from the effects of the very programs the world organization wants to implement
Originally posted by stanguilles7
reply to post by Golf66
Your argument is that the UN is going to force countries to pay a tax.
But that is false, and nothing in the article you site proves otherwise.
Countries may choose to implement a tax, based on a recommendation from the UN. The US may more may not choose to implement these taxes, but the UN will not be enforcing anything. So every claim you have made is false false false.
Originally posted by Golf66
Regardless a tax proposed by the UN and endorsed or accepted against the will of the people by an administration willing to do so - will indeed be imposed.
People do not always consent to taxation it is collected by force of law or if you'd prefer - imposed.
Originally posted by stanguilles7
the United Nations does not have the authority to levy a "tax" on any country, people or entity.
This is no something the UN will 'impose'.
There is an upcoming meeting in brazil, where member nations will vote whether or not to ratify the measure, which will be, if passed, taxes imposed by the member nations, not the UN.
Did you even read your own source?
www.unemg.org...edit on 21-4-2012 by stanguilles7 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by stanguilles7
Originally posted by Golf66
Regardless a tax proposed by the UN and endorsed or accepted against the will of the people by an administration willing to do so - will indeed be imposed.
People do not always consent to taxation it is collected by force of law or if you'd prefer - imposed.
BUT NOT BY THE UN!!!
Sheesh.