Three years ago, I participated in a MUN event.
The agenda was 'innovative sources of finanacing for development'.
Outrageous, hideous ideas were presented (such as: UN Lottery, additional taxation on air tickets, etc.)
We scoffed at them. They looked ridiculous, even in college students' eyes.
We said to ourselves:
Let's say we can pool together all that money.
Let's just say people will agree to pay that extra dollar to help someone they have never met.
Then what?
Who will administer the troublesome process of gathering and distributing that money?
Where will we get staff resources? What money will we pay the staff with?
In the end, we ran out of ideas, and any and all ideas seemed to have critical flaws.
Lacking a better idea, we passed a resolution that included all our ridiculous ideas and asked member countries to 'consider' them and to continue their efforts to develop new ways to finance development aid.
And look what's happening now --
The air ticket solidarity levy has been in place since September 2007.
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