Posted on 10/15/2025 2:30:56 PM PDT by DFG
The United States boasts plenty of coal, wood, and fowl — enough to provide all the tar and feathers required.
Indeed, the globalist bureaucrats at the United Nations should remember how Americans deal with unconstitutional attempts at taxation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.N. this week stands “poised to impose what amounts to a global tax on carbon emissions” — what the WSJ called “the ultimate in taxation without representation.”
Despite lacking both sovereign authority and enforcement power, the U.N.’s London-based International Maritime Organization could attempt to saddle ships with taxes ranging from $100 to $380 per metric ton of carbon dioxide that exceeds a certain emissions level.
Meanwhile, President Donald Trump’s administration has threatened sanctions against countries whose U.N. bureaucrats vote for such nonsense.
Shockingly, the WSJ called this “the first instance we can find of the U.N. claiming the ability to levy a tax — the revenues from which will be paid directly into a U.N.-controlled fund.”
The IMO, of course, would both establish and manage that fund.
Needless to say, a power grab of this nature awakens American patriots to the perils that beset our ancestors.
“No taxation without representation,” Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida wrote Tuesday on the social media platform X.
Then, the governor told a historical truth that every American should understand.
“Being taxed by the UN would be far more offensive than the taxes imposed by Great Britain against the American colonies more than 250 years ago. Those taxes sparked the American Revolution,” DeSantis added.
Finally, the governor spoke for Americans (including yours truly) who resent haughty international bureaucrats.
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Get the UN out ASAP.
Don, Jr can buy that beautiful building and turn it into high=priced condos. Many people would snatch them up. I’d live there in a heartbeat if I could afford it;
The Chinese would be the major beneficiaries of a Bering Strait tunnel, and they could probably build such a tunnel for $15 billion
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beneath_the_Earth
Chinese are digging tunnels under the ocean to plant bombs underneath US Cities
Reviewer called it “deliriously paranoid”
UN can go pound sand.
,,, stop funding the UN and get it out of New York.
Keep your friends close...keep your enemies closer.
Just kick them out!
The Useless Nations strikes again.
How many battleships has the UN?
The same number as the United States. Zero.
I was just going to ask, how many divisions do they have? Would they try to collect from US warships?
When a ship docks, does it have to pay a docking fee?
I’m assuming the USA would not collect the fee.
I’m thinking the country from which the ship departs would not assess the fee either.
Chinese are digging tunnels under the ocean to plant bombs underneath US Cities
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Can I submit a target list?
The whole point of the UN is to impose Communist Socialist values. And it’s proven with the Taiwan Case in 1971.
The courts have ruled UN treaties we didn’t ratify to be legal, overriding laws in this nation (Roper v. Simmons).
If you’ve watched on ESPN the Comcast (NBCUniversal) produced Sky F1 coverage, the signs say “Net Zero by 2030”. It’s a campaign by the UK Left to push fringe environmentalist activism, or as Levin called it, Degrowth.
scrabblehack wrote: “When a ship docks, does it have to pay a docking fee? I’m assuming the USA would not collect the fee. I’m thinking the country from which the ship departs would not assess the fee either.”
That’s very optimistic. Why wouldn’t the owner of the ship assess the fee? Many, if not most, ships are flagged in third world countries that stand to benefit from the UN if this tax is imposted.
And then not forward the money to the UN?
scrabblehack wrote: “And then not forward the money to the UN?”
Why wouldn’t they cooperate by forwarding the money?
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