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Donald
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 Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject: The French Agenda |
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Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: http://www.weforum.org/ -(dumb slur)- member and resident -(dumb slur)- himself French President Jacques Chirac made a stunning proposal. He is suggesting that the entire world be taxed to finance the fight against AIDS. That's right, he wants taxing authority on the rest of the world. Isn't that just fine? Our taxes aren't high enough already. Now we should have our wealth seized to pay for health care for people who engage in irresponsible sexual activities.
This should come as no surprise. France is a socialist country, and Chirac himself is a socialist. He wants the power to decide when, where and how much is going to be spent to fight AIDS, and the power to decide how much of the wealth that each and every individual produces he or she is allowed to keep. So where does he propose getting the money? The list sounds like something a Democrat would dream up:
A tax on international financial transactions, which total some $3 trillion a day
Taxing fuel for air and sea transport
A $1 tax on all airline tickets
But you see, it wouldn't stop with AIDS. That's just the entry point....designed to tug at people's heart strings. The next thing you know, he'll be going for giving the United Nations a worldwide taxing authority. After all, stingy rich nations should do something about poverty in Africa, right? The list would go on and on. The anti sovereignty crowd has been lobbying for United Nations taxing authority for decades. They see it as just a matter of time.
Be thankful that the American people re-elected George W. Bush and not JK, as this is exactly the kind of nonsense he would be supporting  |
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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what you refer to is part of the proposal for an agenda to fight world poverty - it did indeed start from a socialist party: the British Labour Party (from Chancellor Gordon Brown and Prime Minister Tony Blair).
Jacques Chirac on the other hand is not a socialist.
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Donald
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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In politics, left-wing, political left, or simply the left, are terms which refer (with no particular precision) to the segment of the political spectrum typically associated with any of several strains of socialism, social democracy, or liberalism (especially in the American sense of the word), or with opposition to right-wing politics.
Thats right RH, he was narrowly defeated by the socialist party ...but it was in his early years that he was deemed to be the socialist, as he was initially attracted towards left-wing causes, leading him to sell the Communist newspaper l'Humanité and to sign the Communist-inspired Stockholm Call against nuclear weapons in 1950. These left-wing ties proved later a hindrance to him, for instance in his first visit to the United States and his military career. Indeed, even though he finished first of his class at the armored cavalry officer academy of Saumur, the military wanted to de-rank him because they did not wish a "Communist" to become an officer....its no frogs call him the "Chameleon Bonaparte" |
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Richard Haut
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:15 pm Post subject: |
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he sure is a chameleon - but the proposal that you jeer at is a British one; and whatever Britain's 'New Labour' calls itself, it remains a socialist party.
Britain's Labour Party members are proud to be socialists.
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rikilabellevie
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| Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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 lots of talks for nothing ;really.
chirac is just articulating an european belief that we should "help" poorer countries ... (coz we can ....)
tax is probably not the right word to sell the idea though |
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Donald
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| Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yes KM, that is http://www.weforum.org and if you would be so kind as to fix the misprint in post 1, those who are looking to read into this can also read:
| Quote: | He proposed a voluntary tax as part of a call for more financial resources to be allocated to commion challenges and singled out the battle against AIDS.
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I like your reply riki: "lots of talks for nothing really"...and that must be the result of the collective opinion of this WEF  |
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