UN Power To Tax?

[Lloyd Danforth]

I didn't know the UN had any taxing authority!

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE52I09T20090319?sp=true

[Jim Johnson]

"It (the tax) would be almost, if not totally, unnoticed by the consumer,"

Leaches are almost, if not totally, unnoticed... they are also repulsive, if not totally disgusting.

"Leaches.... I hate leaches."  Humphrey Bogart in the movie African Queen.

[John Edward Mercier]

I didn't know the UN had any taxing authority!

http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idUSTRE52I09T20090319?sp=true

The OECD does through its various treaties.
Should be one heck of a fight