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Fact & Comment –Steve Forbes

New Un Scheme will harm Globe’s poor –新歐盟方案將會傷害全球貧困者

The UN’s annual world Economic & Social Survey is floating a scheme to levy a 1% wealth tax on everyone whose net worth exceeds $1 billion . Such an “intriguing” idea would raise revenues to help the world’s poor.Baloney.Such an exaction would damage the world’s economy , which would mean less upward-mobility opportunity for those who have the least .

歐盟全年全球經濟及社會觀察正在進行一項富人增稅(凡是淨資財超過100萬者加徴1%稅而如此謀略可以提昇幫助世界貧困的收益,而如此的重稅將會重創全球經濟,意味著減低那些貧困者的向上的動力機會。

The UN and organizations of its ilk still have a cartoonish conception of what health actually is . Most wealth these days doesn’t consist of piles of cash and gold.Global billionaires are not like scrooge Mcduck, sitting in their money bins and counting coins.The bulk of this wealth can be rather ephemeral , simply an evaluation of assets, whose worth changes constantly .

歐盟及其組織對於富豪仍存於卡通式的觀念。大部份的富翁現今已不是由現金及黃金堆砌而成,全球億萬富翁並不如同守財奴Mcduck,坐在財庫裏數著鈔票,這些富豪卻是曇花一現,僅是資產的評估而財富是經常變更的。

Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook shares are currently worth about $20 million ,which means he’d be liable for $200 million to the UN. But that evaluation assumes Zuckerberg and capable executives will continue to run the company .

馬克佐伯格臉書股份的市值為大約2千萬美元,而意思是他有可能交給歐盟2億美元,但評估的是佐伯格及其優秀的執行長必須持續公司經營。

What do you think the shares would be worth if the postal service took over the company ?And if Facebook fails to generate expected future revenues and profits? It’s market value will plummet . Look at Yahoo’s market value today compared with what it was three days ago –Or Groupon’s or Zynaga’s a few months back .

而你認為如果郵政服務接管公司之後它的股價仍可以支撐?而如果臉書在預期獲利未達成的話,它的市值將會暴跌,我們看到雅虎現今市值與三年前相比,或是Groupon’s 及 Zynaga幾個月之前相較。

Glass warriors assume wealth is just meant for consumption . But the reality is that virtually all of it is invested and reinvested . Take it away from those who create and know how to manage it and it goes the way of water in the desert .

玻璃戰士認定富豪只是消費的代名詞，但事實是其投資及再其增資。那些創造此舉及了解如何操控者將是如同沙漠中灌水一樣。

The report says these folks are worth $4.6 trillion ( a number pilfered from Forbe’s annual world’s Billionaires issue ) and the 1 % tax would ostensibly raise $46 billion . What would go to UN and UN-like –bureaucracies , which would create bigger bureaucracies , more waste and more corruption.

報告顯示這些人的財富價值為4.6兆（根據富比士全年全球億萬富翁調查）而１％的稅將是提高為４千６百萬元，而這將流向歐盟及歐盟傾向的官僚，而將導致更為擴大的官僚體系，更為的浪費及腐敗。

The countries that have moved forward economically the fastest are those least dependent on traditional foreign aid.South Korea, Taiwan , New Zealand ,Israel , Estonia and others have surged ahead through free-market reforms , not by taking UN-like handouts. UN-esque thinking is a formidable barrier to growth , as this report makes clear once again .

在經濟方面快速成長的國家即是那些獨立不受國際援助者，南韓，台灣及紐西蘭，以色列，愛沙尼亞以及其它推動自由市場改革國家，而不是接受歐盟援助。那將是對於成長可怕的阻礙,就如同這份報告清楚的點明了一次。