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CaseyJones
07-06-2012, 12:35 PM
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/un-calls-billionaires-tax-help-worlds-poor-211640656.html


The United Nations on Thursday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries.

An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN report that accuses wealthy nations of breaking promises to step up aid for the less fortunate.