What's With The Recent Calls for Global Taxes?

Add the World Health Organization to the list of international bodies that wants to directly impose taxes on countries around the world.

"The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online — while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.

The aim of its taxing plans is to raise "tens of billions" of dollars for WHO that would be used to radically reorganize the research, development, production and distribution of medicines around the world, with greater emphasis on drugs for communicable diseases in poor countries."

This comes on the heels of recent calls for an international bank tax (proposed by the IMF) as a slush fund to be used to clean-up future financial excesses, as well as a tax on international air travel (a United Nations proposal), to be used to combat "climate change."

Apparently these international bodies aren't content with being funded by countries with whatever funds are leftover after domestic priorities are addressed; no, they'd rather impose taxes directly to ensure there own sources of revenue.

Fortunately, none of the proposals have generated much traction in the United States. If politicians here think raising taxes in general to pay for more warfare, bailouts and welfare will be controversial and would endanger their reelection chances (as slight as the chances of them returning to Washington after November might be), they know they might as well start packing their bags now if they support raising taxes on Americans to pay even more to already overfunded, unaccountable international bodies.