Bowing and Scraping for the WTO

Texas Straight Talk ^ | February 28, 2005 | Ron Paul (R-Tx14)

[w6ai5q37b]

The World Trade Organization, which the United States joined in 1994, has been disastrous for American sovereignty. A tax bill passed last year provides a vivid example of just how blatantly Congress is surrendering our sovereignty to quasi-governmental bodies like the WTO. For years, high-tax Europe has objected to how we tax American companies on their overseas earnings. The EU took its dispute to the WTO grievance board, which voted in favor of the Europeans. The WTO ruling was clear: Congress must change American law to comply with European rules.

Make no mistake about it: WTO ministers tell Congress to change American laws, and Congress complies. In fact, congressional leaders obediently scrambled to make sure the corporate tax bill passed before a WTO deadline. Thousands and thousands of bills languish in committees, yet a bill ordered by the WTO was pushed to the front of the line.

[w6ai5q37b]

Every five years Congress is allowed to consider a "privileged resolution" for WTO withdrawal. It is important that you tell your reps in Congress that you want the US out of the WTO and all other world-government schemes.

[4.1O dana super trac pak]

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[sergeantdave]

Isn't it swell to click our heels, salute and say "Yes sir!" when a pack of unelected, unaccountable, pencil-neck bureaucrats tell us to rewrite our laws?

I recall Bob Dole telling us that the US would never, never, never need to rewrite US laws.

So when will they order us to turn in our guns and hand over our property to the collective for the common good?

[AFreeBird]

So when will they order us to turn in our guns and hand over our property to the collective for the common good?

About five minutes before they get an ass whoopin.

[lainde]

bttt

[Willie Green]

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

--Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1815.

[janetgreen]

"We are infinitely better off without treaties of commerce with any nation."

Especially when those "treaties" are passed in the dead of night without the American people knowing it or agreeing with it.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

We continue to trash our national sovereignty. We would be far better off isolationist. I am starting to believe that the Chinese have a better form of government--at least they look out for #1.