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Macron Calls for Global Tax to Fight Climate Change

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Emphasizing the need for global cooperation to fight so-called climate change, French President Emmanuel Macron last week suggested that some sort of global tax system could be used to finance efforts to mitigate global warming and address global poverty.

The French president suggested that the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) might be used to oversee the negotiation process between nations and multinational corporations to create the new global climate tax.

“I’m in favor of an international taxation to finance efforts that we have to make to fight poverty and in terms of climate [action],” Macron said.

Like a good globalist, Macron suggested that climate change was just too big a problem to attack in a piecemeal fashion.

“It doesn’t work when you do it alone, the [financial] flows go elsewhere,” Macron said.

“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” Proverbs 29:2

Macron lauded his own nation’s commitment to taxes for climate change and suggested that the entire world follows France’s lead.

“France already has in place two types of taxes that have been suggested: one on plane tickets, another on financial transactions,” Macron said. The French president added that he was ready to “make others follow us and mobilize” to address the climate issue.

“There has been a great deal of discussion on the idea of international taxation, over and above what countries and institutions are doing. Whether it’s on financial transactions, maritime transport or certain other models, it will only work if it’s truly international, and so it presupposes an agreement, as we’ve been able to do on international taxation,” the French leader said.

France has also acted to ban short haul-flights in the country, a move that even climate alarmists say is “symbolic” at best.

In September of last year, UN Secretary General António Guterres demanded similar global taxes in order to punish the fossil fuel industry.

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