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Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
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Tue, 1 Apr 2003 20:57:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys writes:

What payment scale would you set up to a 'better' United Nations so that all
countries would be represented fairly?

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 world doesn't stump up more money
to outvote them)

Set a minimum budget for the UN and if the UN budget drops below that, it
goes out of business.

OR everyone pays some amount as a minimum (per capita seems fair) and can't
go below that

or something... I'm brainstorming here, not advocating.

The way it's set now is broken though.



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  Re: Break Out the Cristal (trickle-down economics explained with champagne!)
 
(...) 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"), (...) (21 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!)
 
(...) 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? (21 years ago, 1-Apr-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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