Posted on 07/20/2005 6:39:19 PM PDT by neverhome
GOOD NEWS, BAD NEWS, UNBELIEVABLE NEWS
by James W. Harris
Americans Forced to Pay U.N. "Globotaxes"?
A worldwide tax -- including American citizens -- to support the United Nations? Taxation without representation for the citizens of a nation founded in revolt against that very concept?
It's being seriously discussed -- and the supposedly anti-tax Bush administration hasn't raised a peep. Indeed, the Bush administration is participating in the discussion.
The U.S. government, at the G8 nations meeting earlier this month, agreed to create a working group proposed by France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain to consider carrying out "innovative financing mechanisms" to "help deliver and bring forward the financing needed to achieve the [U.N.'s anti-poverty] Millennium Development Goals."
Among the "financing mechanisms" to be considered is a "solidarity contribution on [international] plane tickets." This tax would bring an estimated $3 billion or more annually to the U.N.
And that's just the beginning, of course. Notes columnist Frank Gaffney Jr. in The Washington Times:
"If the United States goes along with this arrangement in September, it will allow a precedent to be set for taxation without representation that would send America's Founders spinning in their graves. It can forget about the modest constraint its ability to withhold "dues" has exercised on U.N. behavior. It can be sure real U.N. reform will not be in the cards. And it can expect other globotaxes will soon be proposed."
Like what? Gaffney continues:
"The mother of all globotaxes is an idea that has been kicking around the East River for some time and named after the Yale Nobel Laureate who first proposed it, Dr. James Tobin. The "Tobin tax" would theoretically raise an estimated $13 trillion -- yes, trillion -- from a small levy on international currency transactions. Imagine what the One Worlders and U.N. bureaucrats could do to our sovereignty and interests with that kind of wherewithal."
Concludes Gaffney:
"If the Bush administration is unable or unwilling to resist such globotaxes, it will fall to the Congress to do so. With the August recess looming and the U.N. fund-raiser coming right after Labor Day, there is no time to waste."
Now more than ever, it's time to get the U.S. out of the U.N.!
(Source: "Globotaxes," Washington Times: http://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20050718-092250-5620r.htm )
Thoughts?
GoBlow Taxes?
Like we don't pay billions already?
Ping!
The U.N. is groping about for money to replace the billions in Oil-for-Food money they've lost.
I have a feeling that our Administration is going along with the discussion for now, but any American participation is going to depend on major reforms in the U.N. Reforms that won't be forthcoming, killing the concept.
This is like having a Union in a monopoly. DOOMED TO FAILURE on every level IMO.
Then I consider who these taxes would hit hardest and I realize it would be global corporations and illegal immigrants. I have been so disgusted with both of these groups lately that I really don't give a damn how hard they are taxed. Don't count on me to lift a finger to ease their burden.
Global corporations will be hit the hardest and they are the ones pushing for the global new world order. It seems appropriate that they should be the ones who have to pay for it. And your kidding yourself if you think they would be taxed without representation. Who do you think is paying all the bribes to the corrupt UN? They are VERY WELL represented.
Mark
Here you go. This is the reason for global tax. The UN needs more money to keep the ball rolling. Plus, once they get one tax enacted, they can move in for the kill on the tax issue.
http://www.ceedweb.org/iirp/
http://www.un.org/documents/ga/conf151/aconf15126-1annex1.htm
http://www.johannesburgsummit.org/
http://www.iclei.org/index.php?id=391
Here you go. This is the reason for global tax. The UN needs more money to keep the ball rolling. Plus, once they get one tax enacted, they can move in for the kill on the tax issue.
Should this happen, and should Americans refuse to revolt, then this nation deserves to become the cesspoll slave state that will follow.
Why bring this up now...Let the libs push for it .....then push em down the stairs.
Why bring this up now...Let the libs push for it .....then push em down the stairs.
To the extent that taxes can't be passed along they either need to take it out of profits and it costs the shareholders or they make it up by cutting other costs with the most likely candidate being labor. I frankly don't care if they pay the Chinese slave a bit less or a lot less.
Taxes cannot always be passed onto consumers and the more competitive the environment the more difficult it is.
I have been screaming about this for quite awhile! Now maybe you will hear! Bring yourselves up to date:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40559
http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/freedomline/un_monitor/in_our_opinion/global_taxes.htm
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/3/20/134144.shtml
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32887
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/1/2/63214.shtml
Just attach Kofi and his son's bank accounts and there is enough money to bail out all the "poor" countries and still keep their respective despots in the lifestyle they have become accustomed to (or "to which they have become accustomed" for you Grammar Cops).
What gives you that opinion? Hopes and dreams?
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