A logo is pictured on the headquarters of the World Health Orgnaization (WHO) ahead of a meeting of the Emergency Committee on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Reuters: Exclusive: Europeans working with U.S. to restructure WHO, top official says
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European governments are working with the United States on plans to overhaul the World Health Organization, a top health official for a European country said, signalling that Europe shares some of the concerns that led Washington to say it would quit.
The European health official, who spoke on condition of anonymity while discussing initiatives that are not public, said Britain, France, Germany and Italy were discussing WHO reforms with the United States at the technical level.
The aim, the official said, was to ensure WHO’s independence, an apparent reference to allegations that the body was too close to China during its initial response to the coronavirus crisis early this year.
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The US is hurtling toward another trade war – but this time it isn’t with China.
States often share the diesel fuel tax on a prorated by mileage driven on each states roads. It has worked and then also fallen apart. Maybe a deep blue state has a budget crater and so is no longer reasonable, but is going for the Hail Mary.
I don't see why they cannot somehow pro-rate the digital stuff.
But Facebook and the others have been so dickish, why not double tax them until the billionaires owe 10 times what they are worth.
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