Global taxes
A global tax on gun purchases:
This is not the first time Chirac and other world leaders have called for a global tax.
Last year, some at the G8 summit meeting floated the idea of a global tax on arms sales, including – at Chirac’s suggestion – a tax on gun purchases by individuals.
In a speech at the annual meeting of the “Group of Eight,” or G8, da Silva pushed the arms-sales tax as a scheme whereby the world’s wealthiest nations could fund efforts to eliminate world hunger.
