UN to Billionaires: Hand it Over

UN to Billionaires: Hand it Over

Here’s a brilliant, visionary and socially just new idea: let’s tax the world’s billionaires so we can raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries. Great idea, UN.

This payment is one of many proposed in a report that predictably points a finger at wealthy nations for not doing their fair share to help poorer countries. Broken record, I say. 

Reporting on the story, AFP writes:

The annual World Economic and Social Survey says it is critical to find new ways to help the world's poor as...