Friday, April 25, 2008

Financial markets global-tax could aid world’s poor

A tax of one-hundredth of a percentage point on global financial transactions could provide hundreds of billions of dollars for developing countries facing the challenges of soaring commodity prices and climate change, the United Nations heard this week. The food price crisis that has sparked unrest in some of the world’s poorest countries.

[one-hundredth of a percent - for now - are we really foolish enough to allow the one-world-government folks to take what funds they deem 'necessary'?]

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