8. Poverty: What role should the wealthy nations of the world, like Canada and the United States, play in easing the suffering of the world's poorest people? What responsibility do the wealthiest people have in tackling global poverty?

Given that the difference between the world’s wealthiest and poorest people is so vast, I believe that developed nations have an obligation to aid populations that are predominantly living in poverty. That being said it is difficult to enforce a global aid movement without impinging on the desires of greedy people, which seems to be the only barrier in place to solving this issue. It should be noted additionally that an extremely large majority of the earth’s population lives and struggles through poverty, and it seems unfit that only a small privileged section of the population lives in comfort. I realize that my next statement will be seen as a political view, however I believe that a socially based government provides solutions to this issue. For example: the inclusion of an additional tax to individuals in developed nations that would be donated to developing nations could drastically improve the standard of living for people living in poverty. A simple tax of 1$ per day would yield 365$ per person/year, and given that the population of the US (example) is 313,914,040, that would yield 1.15x10^11$ per year that could be donated to solve this issue from the United States alone. A coalition of developed nations doing this simple action is a very practical solution to this issue, and I find it alarming that wealthy nations have still not realized this.