June Program: Windows XP, navigating the web with the keyboard instead of mouse, presented by Lester Miller

Monday, June 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, the Church of the Cross, 1806 Cass Rd. (at Eastgate), Toledo, Ohio.

In This Issue ...

TPCUG Data
From the Prez
Minutes
Treasurer’s Report
Membership Expirations
TOLTBBS Information

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The Toledo PC Users’ Group

Officers
President: Floyd Miller
Vice-President: Lester Miller
Treasurer: Steve Tryc
Secretary: LaVerne Curtis

Standing Committees
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Membership: Sándor Halász
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From the President

Updated May 10, 2010

World Health Organization Moving Ahead on Billions in Internet and Other Taxes

By George Russell
—FOXNews.com

The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations' public health arm, is moving full speed ahead with a controversial plan to impose global consumer taxes on such things as Internet activity and everyday financial transactions like paying bills online—while its spending soars and its own financial house is in disarray.

The aim of its taxing plans is to raise tens of billions of dollars for WHO that would be used to radically reorganize the research, development, production and distribution of medicines around the world, with greater emphasis on drugs for communicable diseases in poor countries.

The irony is that the WHO push to take a huge bite out of global consumers comes as the organization is having a management crisis of its own, juggling finances, failing to use its current resources efficiently, or keep its costs under control—and it doesn't expect to show positive results in managing those challenges until a year from now, at the earliest.

Fox News initially reported last January on the suite of proposals for new and innovative sources of funding, prepared by a 25-member panel of medical experts, academics and health care bureaucrats, when it was presented of a meeting of WHO's 34-member Executive Board in Geneva.

What it all means is that a major lobbying effort could soon be underway to convince rich governments in particular to begin taxing citizens or industries to finance a drastic restructuring of medical research and development on behalf of poorer ones.

The scheme would leave WHO in the middle, helping to manage a global health research and innovation coordination and funding mechanism, as the experts' report calls it.

In effect, the plan amounts to a pharmaceutical version of the U.N.-sponsored climate-change deal that failed to win global approval at Copenhagen last December. If implemented as the experts suggest, it could easily involve the same kind of wealth transfers as the failed Copenhagen summit, which will send $30 billion a year to poor nations, starting this year.

The WHO strategy involves a wide variety of actions to transfer pharmaceutical-related technology, and its production, along with intellectual property rights, to developing countries, according to a condensed global strategy and plan of action also being presented to the World Health Assembly.

What truly concerns the experts, however, is how to get the wealth transfers that will make the R and D transfers possible—on a permanent basis. The panel offers up a specific number of possibilities.

Chief among them:

• a digital or bit tax on Internet activity, which could raise tens of billions of U.S. dollars;
• a 10 percent tax on international arms deals, worth about $5 billion per annum;
• a financial transaction tax, citing a Brazilian levy that was raising some $20 billion per year until it was canceled (for unspecified reasons);
• an airline tax that already exists in 13 countries and has raised some $1 billion.

Almost casually, the panel's report notes that the fundraising effort would involve global changes in legal structures—and policing. As the report puts it: Introducing a new tax or expanding an existing tax may require legal changes, nationally and internationally and ongoing regulation to ensure compliance.

Just as big an issue for WHO, however, may be whether it can adequately manage the money it is already getting—or trying to get—for its current planned needs.

George Russell is executive editor of Fox News.

For total text of the article: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/05/10/world-health-organization-moving-ahead-billion-dollar-internet-tax/

Minutes from May-3rd meeting

The meeting was called to order at 8:20 P.M., by President, Floyd Miller. 6 people were present.. Motion to accept minutes as printed in the newsletter made by Lester Miller, second by Gene Curtis. Minutes were accepted as printed.

Treasurer Steve Tryc was not present. No Treasurer’s-report.

Old Business:
Floyd Miller and Lester Miller plan on moving gear from UAW Hall on Thursday, May 6th, in the afternoon.

There was no new business. Motion was made to adjourn by Gene Curtis, second by Lester Miller. Meeting adjourned at 8:40 P.M.

Program on Windows XP, navigating the web with the keyboard instead of mouse, presented by Lester Miller.

Respectfully submitted by LaVerne Curtis, secretary.

Treasurer’s Report

Steve Tryc, treasurer

Expired & Expiring Memberships