Last Sunday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva addressed the G-8 convention in France and called on the G-8 member countries—Canada, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Russia, and the United States—to impose an international tax on weapons sales. Proceeds from the weapons sales tax would go to ending hunger on the planet.
Calling for all nations to “construct a new alliance against social exclusion,” Lula da Silva told the representatives of the globe’s wealthy nations that he is “convinced that there will not be economic development without social sustainability and that, without both, we will live in a world that is less secure each day.”
“Hunger cannot wait,” Lula da Silva told the assembly reminding them of the simple proposal he has repeatedly made: create a world fund capable of providing food, unconditionally, to anyone who is hungry. Central to the Brazilian president’s plan is “creating conditions to end the structural causes of hunger,” and he provided two sources of revenue for his global hunger fund:
- the tax on international weapons sales
- wealthy nations reinvesting a percentage of the interest received from debtor nations
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