United Nations Internet Tax Fails
The United Nations has been trying to institute world wide taxes to fund its programs. A recent measure to tax the internet failed to be passed, but is not dead yet.
The United Nations has many divisions that are always looking for revenues wherever they can. One, the World Health Organization has a rather aggressive view towards revenues. It believes the UN should issue taxes to its members and then use the revenues to pursue various programs.
A vote on a tax on the internet came up in the general assembly last week. Startling, the media in the United States failed to report on the proposed tax or politics behind it with the exception of Fox News. Fortunately, the passage of the tax was defeated. Well, not defeated. It was tabled and sent back to committee to be reworked. In the machinations of the UN, this means it should come up for a second vote in one to two years.
The effort of the UN to pass global taxes is a very troubling trend. It assumes the entity has the right to place unilateral taxes on a people that have no right to vote against said taxes. Countries are based on a concept known as sovereignty. It states no other country has the right to intervene in the internal politics or geography of that country. This is why we had the “taxation without representation” revolution against the King of England.
There are those that posit a conspiracy to create a “new world order” run by a single government. I’ve found such conspiracies to be humorous in the past, but efforts like those by the UN certainly make one pause and think about the issue. I imagine the real test will come when the UN passes one of these taxes and then tries to implement it.
I can’t imagine the people of most countries standing for such action.