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Originally Posted by Charlie Southerland
Answer: They expect the U.S. to pay for it, for them, like beggars with their hands out. Same thing with the UN— we pay much of the burden so that all of those poor countries can remain members, stay in nice hotels, eat like kings, and spit in our faces. I am paying for that.
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Charlie, I don't want to quarrel with you, but these facts might be interesting.
Member States' Assessed Share of the UN Budget
https://www.globalpolicy.org/un-fina...un-budget.html
There are 193 member states in the United Nations.
The scale of assessments reflects a country's capacity to pay (measured by factors such as a country's national income and size of population.
The peacekeeping budget assessments are based on the regular budget rates, but with discounts for poor countries. The five permanent members of the Security Council, who approve all peacekeeping operations, pay extra fees to compensate for those discounts. A "ceiling" rate sets the maximum amount of any member state's assessed share of the regular and peacekeeping budgets.
The US is the only member that is affected by those ceilings.
Consequently the US pays less than its share of the world economy. As of December 31, 2010 the US was in arrears to the tune of $736 million or 80% of all member states debt.
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That was four years ago. How are things now?
US funding to the UN. http://www.betterworldcampaign.org/i...ds-the-un.html
In recent years, after a lengthy period of accumulating arrears in its UN dues, the U.S. returned to good financial standing at the world body by fully funding its regular and peacekeeping budget assessments and paying off past debts. Unfortunately, the U.S. took a significant step back in Fiscal Year 2014: the omnibus FY'14 appropriations legislation approved this January underfunded our UN peacekeeping dues by more than $350 million and had no funding for the UN mission in Mali (MINUSMA). This could have serious implications for MINUSMA—which is currently working to stabilize territory once held by several radical Islamist groups—as well as numerous other peacekeeping missions that promote critical U.S. interests.
On March 4, 2014, the Obama Administration released its International Affairs budget request for FY'15. We are pleased that the Administration’s request for peacekeeping represents a significant increase over the FY'14 omnibus and helps reduce the amount the U.S. is in arrears to the UN.
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So far this year only two security council members have paid their 2015 dues.
http://untribune.com/two-15-security...aid-2015-dues/
Feb. 25, 2015 – New Zealand and France are the only two members of the Security Council to have paid their 2015 United Nations dues so far this year.
Permanent members Britain, China, Russia and the United States have still to pay along with nine of the ten non-permanent countries on the Council.
Here you can see what countries have paid their due so far.
http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/honourroll.shtml
All business people know that it is better to have a customer who buys and pays cash for 1000 dollars a month than to have one who runs up a bill for 10,000 and pays when he feels like it.
Respectfully
Janice