United Nations Debt

Throughout the 1960's to the 1980’s, the UN run up debts that were close $1 billion. In 1986, America refused to pay 50% of its annual contribution in protest at the influence newly emerging nations had or were attempting to get. America saw that a large nations were the nations that were paying a majority of the budget and believed that whoever is paying more should more input. Look at my previous post for a quote from and American Congressman that could be related. America pointed out that 85% of the UN’s budget was paid by just 20 nations yet many smaller nations were trying to reform the way the UN was run (especially its voting system) without making the same financial commitment to the UN. This sparked a series of problems, which lead to the USA and USSR going head to head in the climax of the Cold War. The USSR was slowly turning bordering countries to a Communist Government, but all of these Nations were very poor and unorganized. The USSR would push for the smaller Nations to get bigger input so that the USSR could use their authority to dictate how the smaller nations would vote. This lead to a period of the 1980's where the USSR would veto anything the United States proposed and the United States would veto anything the USSR proposed. There is not an official name for this period of the United Nations, but all we know is that nothing got accomplished and the debt increased. I believe that the United Nations should figure out a way to resolve these debts problems and, once again, the voting problems. I believe that is the United Nations is going to tax, every nation should be taxed the same percentage. I believe the five nations in the security council already have enough power, but the other big nations who do not have security council power (Germany, Canada, Italy, etc.) should play a larger role in the United Nations because they play a larger role in the World.