The Call for a Global Tax
By Jacob Mchangama & Aaron Rhodes Targeting the G-8, United Nations human-rights officials (“independent experts”) have issued a call for a global financial-transaction tax “to offset the costs of the enduring economic, financial, fuel, climate and food crises, and to protect basic human rights.” The May 14, 2012, statement is among the most blatant examples of how far the international human-rights community has strayed from human-rights princip…