disproportionate financial support

Posted Dec 5, 2005 22:14 UTC (Mon) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: disproportionate financial support by danielpf
Parent article: Fellow Me: No more Vienna Manipulations!

Now I get you. But you gave the answer yourself:

At small scale responsible people count each one vote despite large disparities in tax contributions. The same should apply for a collection of nations if these want to follow democratic principles as a method of sharing power.

Disparities in funding should not count when it comes to voting. Since nowadays power is money and money is power, it is difficult to counter this. In fact a guy with the same exact profile was declared a monopolist some years ago but nothing was done about it; therefore not Medina, not WA, but his own national government proved itself unable to deal with his company.

In comparison, the UN doesn't do a bad job most of the time; at least it can challenge the powers that be once in a while.