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Utopia and World Party (fwd)

by md7148

01 December 1999 04:04 UTC




>    A true World Party should IMHO plead for a comprehensive system of
>global social security - mainly to be paid by taxing international
>capital-flows; introducing global taxation on transnational enterprises
>and
>investments; and by instituting a world-wide system to tax off-shore
>capital. Such a system would free each individual on earth of want,
>unemployment (or at least assuring a minimum of unemployment-benefit),
>lack
>of education, squalor and securing a decent old age (that is a pension),
>safety of life, sickness-benefit, freedom of opinion and a protected
>childhood. Social security is culture-independent (an old man professing
>Islam wants a pension or medical care as much as an atheist) and all
>major
>religions have a system of charity - so that it tallies with all
>religious
>system.

i sincerely agree (although some of these developmets are already taking
place). one important question. how are you planning to convince the
capitalists to accept "global taxation"?

just crucious to know...

best wishes,

Mine


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