Have you noticed this little United Nations tidbit lately!

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  Did you notice that the Watchtower was quite able to use the UN Department of Public Information resources, to write the article below 2 years after they disassociated with no problem at all? Did you notice their article on the topic of taxes lately? Did you notice the 2 words (Africa Recovery)? If they used this resource in 2003 and are probably still using it, then they could have done the very same thing in 1991! http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/ The Africa Renewal information programme, produced by the Africa Section of the United Nations Department of Public Information, provides up-to-date information and analysis of the major economic and development challenges facing Africa today. Among the major items it produces is the renowned magazine, Africa Renewal (formerly Africa Recovery), which first appeared in 1987. It also produces a range of public information materials, including backgrounders, press releases and feature articles. It works with the media in Africa and beyond to promote the work of the United Nations, Africa and the international community to bring peace and development to Africa. Now notice a quote from paragraph (4) from an article on WT website! http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2003/12/8a/article_01.htm The gap between rich and poor fuels the fires of resentment. Says the UN publication Africa Recovery: "One of the many economic differences between developed and developing countries is that developed countries subsidize farmers while developing countries tax farmers. . . . World Bank studies suggest that US subsidies alone reduce West Africa's annual revenue from cotton exports by $250 [million] a year." Farmers in developing lands may thus resent it when their government extracts taxes from their already meager earnings. A farmer in one Asian land says: "Whenever [government officials] came here they were bound to be asking for money." Pictures at bottom of Awake article on WT web site 2 years after they disassociated.

  In developing lands the poor may carry an unfair share of the tax burden Appeared in Awake! December 8, 2003
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  Are Your TAXES Too High?

  			Growing Resentment Against Taxes?
  	In this series: Growing Resentment Against Taxes? Taxes—Price of a "Civilized Society"? Should You Pay Your Taxes? Related topic: Global Trade—How It Affects You		"If I toil it is snatched away from me." —Babylonian proverb, about 2300 B.C.E. "In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes." —U.S. statesman Benjamin Franklin, 1789. REUBEN works in sales. Every year nearly a third of his hard-earned wages evaporate in the form of taxes. "I don't see where all this money is going," he complains. "With so many government cutbacks, we're receiving less services than ever before." Like it or not, though, taxes are a part of life. Writer Charles Adams says: "Governments have been taxing income in many ways as long as there [has] been civilized life." Taxes have often aroused resentment and have sometimes sparked revolt. The ancient Britons fought the Romans, saying: "How much better to have been slain than to go about with a tax on our heads!" In France hatred of the gabelle, a salt tax, helped spark the French Revolution, during which tax collectors were guillotined. Tax revolts also played a role in the U.S. war of independence, fought against England. Not surprisingly, resentment against taxes continues to smolder to this day. Experts say that in developing lands tax systems are often "inefficient" and "unfair." According to one researcher, there is an impoverished African land that had "over 300 local taxes, the administration of which was impossible even with the best of capacities. Proper collection and monitoring mechanisms are either non-existent or not applied, . . . creating opportunities for misuse." BBC News reported that in one Asian land, "local officials imposed dozens of . . . illegal charges—from fees for growing bananas to taxes on slaughtering pigs—either to top up [increase] the local finances or to pad their own pockets." The gap between rich and poor fuels the fires of resentment. Says the UN publication Africa Recovery: "One of the many economic differences between developed and developing countries is that developed countries subsidize farmers while developing countries tax farmers. . . . World Bank studies suggest that US subsidies alone reduce West Africa's annual revenue from cotton exports by $250 [million] a year." Farmers in developing lands may thus resent it when their government extracts taxes from their already meager earnings. A farmer in one Asian land says: "Whenever [government officials] came here they were bound to be asking for money."
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