Anyone heard of some sort of UN tax?

[mmonk]

I didn't know they had a taxing authority. (just wondering where people get the things they say to me).

[Warpy]

1. I suppose it's the next lie they're floating to scare the witless to the polls

None of the others seem to be working all that well this year.

[applegrove]

11. Watch out. The 'death panels' slur stuck to HCR. This could stick too. I hope not.

[PVnRT]

2. It's a common scaremonger tactic

The UN has no power to levy taxation on individual countries. Countries who sign the treaty to join are required to basically membership dues, and that's it.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. The right has been in an uproar about a suggested global financial transaction tax.

http://blog.heritage.org/2010/09/22/the-u-n-wants-to-tax-the-world-out-of-poverty/

[mmonk]

7. Ah, I see.

What would be the taxing authority?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Each individual country. See the article.

[mmonk]

10. I did not see where that was evident in the writing

though I understand if it is a tax through treaty.

[WilliamPitt]

4. Myth

[mmonk]

5. Does it have anything to do with Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters?

(and of course the right making it out to be a tax imposed by the UN)

[joeybee12]

6. They collect it for their black helicopters...n/t

[mmonk]

8. Oh yes, the black helicopters.

Do they have straight jackets for the wingnuts?

[petronius]

12. The UN tax only kicks in after the UN has confiscated all of our guns

Stay armed and vigilant, and we'll be able to prevent the UN from implanting tax-collecting RFID devices in our colons! :patriot:

[FLSurfer]

13. and any country that

doesn't levy the tax upon it's citizens, will not receive any UN help in the case of a crisis.
:sarcasm: