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!