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Article: Support Mexican president's call for global taxes?
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- Human Events
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- March 25, 2002
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In a March 19 op-ed in the Washington Post about the UN's Monterrey Conference on Financing Development, Mexican President Vicente Fox indicated his support for a system of global taxation.
"As a stepping-stone on the path toward development for all," wrote Fox, "Monterrey should allow us to move closer to new and more far-reaching goals, including some proposals that didn't make the radar screen this time. For example, global taxes such as the one proposed on carbon emissions could be used to finance global public goods. . . . The industrialized countries... [could provide] money for development and also a more efficient use of scarce resources."
HUMAN EVENTS Assistant Editor David ...