The Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population, which is the Global Community. Global Parliament has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be researched and developed for this purpose.
Conservation, restoration, and management of the Earth resources is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth?" The large gap between rich and poor is conected to ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources.We, the Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all.
The Global Community has proposed a democracy for the people based on the fact that land, oil, minerals, other natural resources rightly belong to the Global Community. The Earth is the birthright of all life.
Following this thinking we see land ownership is no longer a problem. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" contained therein. A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with the Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries. We will see in the Preview how this new system can work.
As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to such natural resources.
On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a global community lease payment basis for public needs as it has affirmed that ocean resources are the common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions. Water belongs to the Earth and all species and is sacred to life therefore, the world’s water must be conserved, reclaimed and protected for all future generations and its natural patterns respected.
Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government; therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or traded for commercial purposes. These rights must be enshrined at all levels of government. In particular, an international treaty must ensure these principles are noncontrovertable.
Water is best protected by local communities and citizens, who must be respected as equal partners with governments in the protection and regulation of water. Peoples of the Earth are the only vehicle to promote democracy and save water.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to the Global Community to be used, developed and conserved for the maximum benefit of the people and of all life.
The Global Community should set up expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels.
This thinking should give us a fresh start for a better future and bring some light to understanding previous claims of the many different groups such as:
- Native and aboriginal people claiming that their ancestors owned the land so now they do
- God gave it to us so the land is ours
- Property ownership system of the Roman Empire to today, our social-economic system of land owership
- The military power of this world forcing ownership of land and of all other Earth natural resources against the will of everyone else
None of the above groups can claim ownership of the land and other Earth natural resources. They never did own the land and of all other Earth natural resources. And they never will.
Only the Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth.
The Global Economic Model proposed by the Global Community is truly the best response to the world.
However, we have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources virtually without taxation.
Whoever owns the land and all other natural resources exerts power over those who are landless and no resources. The Global Community proposes to extend democratic principles to include the ownership and control of the Earth. The Global Economic Model was created for all the people on the planet. The model makes sure that the rights of all people and the rights of the planet are one and the same.
The Global Economic Model stipulates as well that we, as human beings, are trustees and caretakers of all other life forms on Earth.
The Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace.
How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in it but by all life on Earth and the Soul of Life, the Soul of Humanity.
Unless a reformed or empowered Global Parliament is leading firmly upon the principle of equal rights for the Global Community, then the planet will be controlled by a handful of vested interests.
Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to natural resources. The Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labor. Common property is all what Nature offers. The Global Economic Model policy removes taxes from wages and increases taxes and user fees on common property.
The model eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially
harmful, and inequitable.
The Global Community proposes a Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods. There is a troublesome and painful contradiction in the lives of many of us who are working for
peace, justice, poverty eradication, debt cancellation and sustainable development. While our hearts and minds focus on building a better world for everyone, each day we hand over fistfuls of dollars to build
weapons of mass destruction, fuel dangerous, dirty and polluting technologies, and subsidize huge conglomerates which concentrate the wealth of the world in the control of the few. But together we can end
tax tyranny and align our visions and values with how we finance our governments.
The Global Community was looking for a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing
countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards, but there it was all along right on our eyes.
Global tax
A) A tobin tax as a powerful instrument of the promotion of sustainable development
B) A Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods
C) The debt of developing countries - was really a global tax developed countries had to pay to developing countries
D) Green tax aspects and issues 
A) A tobin tax as a powerful instrument of the promotion of sustainable development
A) A tobin tax as a powerful instrument of the promotion of sustainable development
The Global Community is making a strong case in favour of the introduction of a specific type of tobin tax as a powerful instrument
of the promotion of sustainable development, both directly as well as indirectly. Indirectly, it can discourage financial
speculation and currency crises with their devastating effects on countries; directly, as a tax, the proceeds of it can be used as
an alternative source of sustainable development finance in order to promote the establishment of international public goods.
The original Tobin tax proposal can be made into a feasible instrument by engineering it as a two-tier tax (the so-called Spahn
version of the Tobin tax), with tax collection through the international settlements system.
The global economy can be affected by the deregulation in the movement of capital and thus by speculation. Money is made
off tiny fluctuations in the relative prices of currencies. Speculation makes it possible for huge amounts of money to be
transferred half-way around the world in a matter of seconds. Whereas world trade associated with actual goods and services
is estimated at 7 trillion dollars (US) a year, speculation is estimated at 1.5 trillion dollar a day. If a country's economy starts to slow, billions of
dollars can be transferred out of the country instantaneously, which can significantly affect its economy and the people. This has
been the case in 1997 of a number of East Asia countries. They were bankrupted by speculation. The people were enormously
affected for the worst. Speculation can exert tremendous pressure on the internal politics of a country. It can bankrupt a
country's economy. Speculation should be de-institutionalized. Humanity has no real need for speculation, and it does way
more damage than good. Speculation is a form of gambling and is evil.
B) A Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods
The Global Community proposes a Green Tax Shift Policy Approach to financing local-to-global public goods.
There is a troublesome and painful contradiction in the lives of many of us who are working for peace, justice, poverty
eradication, debt cancellation and sustainable development. While our hearts and minds focus on building a better world for
everyone, each day we hand over fistfuls of dollars to build weapons of mass destruction, fuel dangerous, dirty and polluting
technologies, and subsidize huge conglomerates which concentrate the wealth of the world in the control of the few. But
together we can end tax tyranny and align our visions and values with how we finance our governments.
Taxation not only raises money to fund government services, it also reflects the overall value system of a society. The goal of
green tax policy is to create a system of public finance which strengthens and maximize incentives for:
* Fair distribution of wealth
* Environmental protection
* Basic needs production
* Provision of adequate government services
* Peaceful resolution of territorial conflicts
Green tax reform makes a clear distinction between private property and common property. Private property is that which is
created by labor. Common property is that which is provided by nature. Green tax policy removes taxes from wages and other
private property and increases taxes and user fees on common property. Reducing taxes on labor increases purchasing
capacity, reducing taxes on capital encourages efficiency. Shifting taxes to land and resources curbs speculation and private
profiteering in our common property and is a practical way to conserve and fairly share the Earth.
Captured in brief soundbites, tax waste, not work; tax bads, not goods; pay for what you take, not what you make; and
polluter pays become tax shift principles readily translated into voter friendly policy recommendations with broadbased political
support.
Green tax policy CUTS taxes on:
* Wages and earned income
* Productive and sustainable capital
* Sales, especially for basic necessities
* Homes and other buildings
Green tax policy INCREASES taxes and fees on:
* Land sites according to land value
* Lands used for timber, grazing, mining
* Emissions into air, water, or soil
* Ocean and freshwater resources
* Electromagnetic spectrum
* Satellite orbital zones
* Oil and minerals
Green tax policy seeks to ELIMINATE subsidies environmentally or socially harmful, unnecessary, or inequitable. Slated for
drastic reduction or complete removal are subsidies for:
* Energy production
* Resource extraction
* Commerce and industry
* Agriculture and forestry
* Weapons of mass destruction
The Global Community is in favour of the introduction of a specific type of tobin tax as a powerful instrument
of the promotion of sustainable development, both directly as well as indirectly. Indirectly, it can discourage financial
speculation and currency crises with their devastating effects on countries; directly, as a tax, the proceeds of it can be used as
an alternative source of sustainable development finance in order to promote the establishment of international public goods.
The original Tobin tax proposal can be made into a feasible instrument by engineering it as a two-tier tax (the so-called Spahn
version of the Tobin tax), with tax collection through the international settlements system.
The Global Community was looking for a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to
the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries
to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards, but there it was all along right
on our eyes. The Earth Court of Justice will be asked to decide on the debt be changed into an actual tax to
be paid by the rich nations to the poor nations, and to decide on the amount of tax to be paid. Developing
nations will then be able to start rebuilding their communities as per the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and
the Charter of the Global Community. They will not have to satisfy the economic needs and wishes of the rich
nations. The Earth Court of Justice will also be asked to rule illegal the activities of the IMF, the World Bank and
the WTO unless they become a part of a greater whole such as the Earth Ministry of Financial Institutions, a part
of the future the Global Community. These institutions will be controlled by the greater whole.
C) The debt of developing countries - was really a global tax developed countries had to pay to developing countries
The Earth Court of Justice is required to rule that the debt of the poor nations or 'developing nations' to the rich nations was in actuality a form of global tax and therefore the poor or 'developing' nations dont have to pay it back.
In fact poor nations should expect way more money as tax by the rich nations and not as loans.
The state of the world today is the result of a specific set of interlocking institutions: the IMF, the World Bank and the WTO. These institutions are
designed to generate massive wealth for the few and poverty for the rest. The same people who make the decisions in government and corporation make the profit.
They create a tight concentration of power. Together they are a form of anti-government whose only goal is profit. The IMF, through Structural Adjustment Programs, now directly runs the economies of over 70 countries.
That means that about 1000 economists and bureaucrats control the economic policies for 1.4 billion people in these countries. That is a form of anti-government. The people
that profit most from the global economy are white people. The people who are most oppressed by the global economy are people of colour. Racism and sexism have become the norm. The entire
planet is in a state of low intensity civil war. The ruling elite profit off of the exploitation of the rest of the world.
The Global Community was
looking for a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free
technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards, but there it was all along right on our eyes. The Earth Court of Justice
will be asked to decide on the debt be changed into an actual tax to be paid by the rich nations to the poor nations, and to decide on the amount of tax to be paid. Developing nations will then be able to start
rebuilding their communities as per the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of the Global Community. They will not have to satisfy the economic needs and wishes of the rich nations. The Earth Court of Justice will also be asked to rule illegal the activities of the IMF, the World Bank and
the WTO unless they become a part of a greater whole such as the Earth Ministry of Financial Institutions, a part of the future the Global Community. These institutions will be controlled by the greater whole.
