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Originally posted by Timber Loftis:
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international tax be levied on arms sales and some financial transactions
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Doesn't this sound to you like a tax against the US?? Howabout a tax on champagne, perfume and beret sales instead? I'll vote for that one. [/QUOTE]LOL Timber, that would suit me just fine : I don't like champagne, I use very little perfume, and French people have quit wearing berets ages ago! [img]tongue.gif[/img]
My, are you paranoid in the US, a tax tailored against the US, indeed. One would think the US are the only people in the world using weapons and making financial deals. What an interesting concept. Do you have shares in a weapon factory, Timber ? [img]tongue.gif[/img]
EDIT : I just read an article on the subject. Seems that one of the tax propositions was on greenhouse gas emissions. I am quite surprised you don't agree with this one, Timber. I thought you opposed big companies being able to make environmental messes on our mother earth. Unless what you really meant was 'they shouldn't alter the environment in the US, but what they do outside of our borders, fine with me', uh ?
Seems the US opposed the global tax idea - saying that "a global tax is inherently undemocratic". Undemocratic because ... ? All of us poor peons have been paying 'global taxes' (at country level); maybe we should stop paying them, since they are 'undemocratic' ...
[ 09-27-2004, 04:49 AM: Message edited by: Moiraine ]