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| | | Larry Pieniazek wrote: <big snip>... (...) Uh, Lar, that may not be such a good idea - the US has a long history of failing to pay US dues. If the vote was based on current, true, paid-up dues, there would be many times when the US would have ZERO (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) That's part of the original argument. If we don't get a vote unless we're paid up, we (and other nations as well) will be falling all over ourselves to pay up. ESPECIALLY if we get a 25% or so vote because of it. I think there are a lot of (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —David Koudys
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| | | | | (...) Is this 'payment' to a "revamped" UN dependant on number of citizens in the country? GNP? Or just a flat rate? What payment scale would you set up to a 'better' United Nations so that all countries would be represented fairly? (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | | | (...) Everyone pays whatever they want and then votes in direct proportion to how much they paid in order to decide what to do. So to implement the onion-vision all the US has to do is pay 51% (and that will work as long as the whole rest of the (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —David Koudys
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| | | | | | (...) It is broken--that much you convinced me (though it didn't take too long a trip for me to see that...) But, again, just brainstorming here... Price per citizen, or any other scale of paying, tends to favour capitalist societies ("western"), (...) (22 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —Scott Arthur
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| | | | | | (...) Relate it to GDP. That way everyone gives as much as they can afford... sort of like income tax. Scott A (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!) —Ross Crawford
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| | | | (...) I think it more likely we would end up falling over ourselves to do back-door deals in order to avoid paying. ROSCO (22 years ago, 2-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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