Internation Trade tax where UN recieves.
This bill I have proposed will benefit everybody and let the UN promote more programs to the world. This bill will have a lot of impact. Please support this bill
Tax on International Trade
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice
Strength: Strong
Proposed by: Sir Leprechaun
Description: Their is a lot of Trading between nations. With all of this trading, I believe that the UN can benefit a lot from this if we add a small tax to all goods that are traded between different regions.
Here is what It will consit of:
1) All goods traded from one region to another should have a 5% tax on it and that 5% will go to the UN.
2) The 5% tax profit made for the UN can be spent anywhere which the UN desires.
3) Nations with struggling economies are exempted from this tax.
4) All aditional taxes still apply and aren't in the UN's control.
Supporting this proposal will benefit the whole world. This gives the UN freedom to have a larger budget and have the money to spend on other programs.
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 147 more approvals)
Voting Ends: Tue Feb 17 2004
The Global Market
15-02-2004, 02:43
Wait... how is giving the government more money a GOOD thing again?
Frisbeeteria
15-02-2004, 03:12
Approvals: 0
Status: Lacking Support (requires 147 more approvals)
And likely to stay that way.
Just a suggestion, Sir Leprechaun - hang around and read the last few pages of UN topics before you jump in with 2 new proposals in ten minutes. Tax proposals like humanitarian tax (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=123571), flat tax (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122266), and this very similar but much less intrusive Transportation tax (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=121005) have all been greeted with widespread derision and lack of approvals. Do you have ANY idea how intrusive a 5% general tariff is? I'm guessing you don't.
I'm going to be polite and not tear down the proposal itself. Suffice to say it will expire witrh very few endorsements. Please, play the game for a few days before you try to change it for the rest of us.
I am sorry I don't have time to read 300 proposals or so it would take forever. I will try to be more patient sorry for the inconvienence.
Frisbeeteria
15-02-2004, 03:31
I am sorry I don't have time to read 300 proposals or so it would take forever.
Follow your own logic, SL. You don't have time to read (actually it's 80) proposals, but you have no problem asking 36,753 people to waste THEIR valuable time reading two more totally unnecessary proposals?
At one minute per proposal, you'd spend over an hour reading the whole list. (I can do it in about 5 minutes, but I'm being generous.) Let's say only 10% of the active UN members bother reading your two proposals. That's 122.5 hours, or just over 5 days worth of reading time, because you couldn't be bothered to spend 80 minutes looking over what's already there.
Think before you post, please.
get your facts straight people these proposals are much different. I am proposin 5% tax not .50%tax plus this tax will only be put on international trading. Plus I made the other proposal a while ago. You guys don't know what you are talking about. Don't attack me, but stupid proposals like banning chiniese finger traps are on their. Come on get real folks.
Frisbeeteria
15-02-2004, 04:16
I am proposin 5% tax not .50%tax plus this tax will only be put on international trading.
You DO realize that a 5% tax is ten times higher than a .50% tax, right? The decimal point thingie?
And if you'd clicked the link to the Transportation tax proposal, you'd have seen that even a 1% tax on just the freight costs of international trade was considered too much.
You may lecture me on getting my facts straight when you have taken the time to get YOUR facts straight, Sir.
Your right 5% that's it. Not that much say that are taxes are usally around 6.5% for sales tax stop whining.
Hi, I'm John Marat, I like to think of myself as prozac in human form. Now, you see, taxes in the Un are a very tricky business as you all know because of the following:
UN taxation ban
A resolution to reduce income inequality and increase basic welfare.
Category: Social Justice Strength: Significant Proposed by: Nassland
Description: The UN shall not be allowed to collect taxes directly from the citizens of any member state for any purpose.
Votes For: 4511
Votes Against: 719
Implemented: Mon Jan 13 2003
It is a small tax on goods but I can't help thinking that member states will try and use this resolution to get out of it. They'll probably say something like "well you can't take money from the goods involved, you have to take it from me, therefore you are directly taxing me, a citizen of a UN nation and that's against the rules". Now, it may be a lame argument, but in the absence of a good one, lame arguments will do. We all know that, right? And that will mean petitions and marches in the streets and UN resignations and smuggling and goodness knows what. So um...yeah. This one is a doozie!
But hey, you've been a ray of sunshine in our lives. I'm John Marat, thanks for listening. ^_^
Hey, with all those 5%s we can fund really lavish never ending debates on prostitution, religion, drugs, sexual persuasions and what species you can marry. That would be different wouldn't it..can't wait......