By Jo Nova
Here we go again — the UN will try again in October to get its own income stream. The UN bureaucrats don’t want to go begging for cash among difficult right wing populist leaders, they want their own money. So, yet again, they’re proposing some form of carbon tax on ships and planes, supposedly to save the world from beachy weather. But we all know that the main purpose is to line the pockets of The Blob.
If they succeed, they will just ask for more. There’s no accountability. No limits. Just an infinite array of ways to “help us” by taking our money.
The UN’s plan to levy taxes on global trade is a sinister power grab
By Brenda Shaffer, The Telegraph
International energy and climate policies stand at the centre of one of the most defining political issues of our time: the expanding power of unelected institutions such as the United Nations in the lives of people in democratic societies.
Two UN agencies – the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) – plan to tax global shipping and aviation for their greenhouse gas emissions. This would mark the first time an unelected institution has levied taxes on major sectors of global economic activity. The planned levies would expand the power and budgets of these agencies with no democratic accountability.
If implemented, the UN agency levies will raise global shipping and aviation costs, adding to inflation worldwide. Shipping produces just around 2 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet a UN tax on it would add costs to virtually every traded good. Shipping carries more than 80 per cent of global trade, a share expected to grow. Civil aviation accounts for approximately 2.5 per cent of global emissions. The planned carbon offset requirement would add further costs to international flights.
The IMO hopes that airlines will be purchasing carbon offsets from January next year and it expects to rake in between $11 billion and $13 billion US.
As Brenda Shaffer points out, only the rich (stupid) west will pay this fee. It will offer another competitive advantage to China.
Worse, it will feed the Blob. Every dollar fed into the machine is more money the UN can use for soft propaganda, and compliant modeling to sell their horror stories. It’s more money to reward their acolytes with junkets to Brazil or Azerbaijan to keep them loyal.
The UN should be disbanded for even suggesting they want taxation without representation. Enough!
The UN has long gone past it’s usefulness and should be scrapped.
It’s just a gravy train for failed pollies and their ilk.
I remember reading some time ago that in about 1948 it was denigrated.
Of course, the “bureaucratic” types did not agree and won that argument.
Hence we have the shite of today.
I reckon the ONLY way Australia will ever be able to get out of its clutches is when
ONE NATION holds power in Canberra.
And that MAY be sooner than the UNI-Party think.
More protection required.
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Wouldn’t it have been nice is the UN had actually spent time, expertise and the money gifted to it to improve the lives of people in developing nations?
It’s beyond belief that there is still a need to build basic infrastructure, provide clean water, education, reliable and affordable electricity, not to mention actual peace and stability.
All those things are supposed to be facilitated under the UN charter, yet here we are, decades down the track (nearly 80 years in fact) and still millions are ignored and left behind.
The UN is way past its use-by date, and there’s no need or reason to continue feeding the well-upholstered would-be “world leaders” who think they own us and would control us down to our very thoughts.
Enough!
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Like the League of Nations before it, the UN reached its use-by date. However, the UN then over-reached! It’s time for its termination.
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Just another sound reason to vote for One Nation in Victoria in November and in the Federal election in 2028.
Of course we must preference vote for the Coalition after we vote for ON and make sure we preference the dangerous Labor and Greens loonies last on your ballot paper.
If you don’t preference Labor and Greens last you are wasting your time and you will ensure we have the net zero BS and lunacy forever.
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