Chirac wants Global Tax and Enough AIDS already

Jacques Chirac, now wants a global tax to “fight AIDS.” Such as “noble” cause as the fight against AIDS is a clever way to try to introduce a global tax. I’m sure it won’t be popular today, but this is the beginning. I’m now even more glad that Kerry didn’t the election. That Francophile would be all over an idea to have global tax. Global taxes will be suggested more and more often until it finally happens. Once one global tax happens, look for many many more to have in quick succession. I’m sure many liberals are running around wondering why THEY hadn’t thought of the global tax first.

My big complaint is that no one really cares about AIDS itself, just money. They see the money they can siphon from donations and taxes. In 2004, when Bush pledged $15 billion to fight AIDS in Africa, Kofi Annan, instead of being happy, was on the BBC complaining that the Americans will administer the money themselves instead of putting it into the “Global Fund” where Annan and his goons can stick their grubby fingers. Why would Kofi really complain about how the money was distributed if he really cared about the disease itself?

My other complaint is that the attention AIDS gets has been blown entirely out of proportion. There are many diseases and afflictions and all of them will only garner so many donations and support. AIDS get too attention. Funding and attention for diseases like leukemia, cancer, Parkinson’s, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, suffer because of all the attention AIDS gets. I even doubt AIDS is as rampant in Africa as statistics tell us. Do they do comprehensive AIDS testing on all of these people? I doubt it. Instead, they are probably suffering from malnutrition, dysentery, and other diseases like tuberculosis or malaria. Why don’t we instead focus on sending vaccines for these diseases to Africa? We probably even send AIDS drugs to people who don’t need it, but need other supplies instead. Sure, AIDS shouldn’t be completely ignored, but it is preventable in 99.5% of the circumstances. AIDS isn’t an airborne disease or a genetic disorder. AIDS can be only passed through sex (and mainly anal, at that), intravenous drug use, childbirth, and blood transfusions. In the US, we now screen blood transfusions and can prevent the childbirth transmission of AIDS. So in virtually all circumstances, AIDS can be prevented.

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