[clearsight]

This subversive oganization must be stopped cold in it's tracks before it becomes completely autonomous and is enabled to wage more subversive wars than it currently does now by proxy through willing puppet states.

[Peach]

This is really starting to tick me off. If our Republican friends in Congress can't stop this trend, then what's the sense of being involved in politics at all?

[Dallas59]

"Worlds three-quarters poor"

The reason those 3/25 can't move up is because of their governments and leaders. Capitalism produces wealth and fosters innovation. Socialism does nothing but steal from the rich and then becomes stagnant.

[JesseJane]

Worth repeating:

In conclusion, a global tax would not be possible if the barriers between the nation-states had not been dismantled. The economic barriers fell with the creation of the IMF/World Bank in 1944; the political barriers fell with the creation of the United Nations; the trade barriers fell with the creation of the World Trade Organization; and the legal barriers fell with the creation of the International Criminal Court. These ideas will be on the table at the G8 in June and at the UN in September. Has the UN found a way to justify their existence? Yes. Can Dr. Kaul feel gratified that she has done her job well? Yes. Will the people of the world ever recover? No.

[Tempestuous]

The UN is a joke. How can an organization hold any credibility when it has been so inept, holds no standards for membership and consistently appoints some of the worse violators of human rights to the very posts in opposition?

It’s like having the inmates run the asylum. Any extra funding from taxes or otherwise would certainly make matters worse. Using the Star Trek analogy…it would be like having the Klingons, Cardassians, Romulans and Borg as members of the Federation.

The US should kick the UN out of America, cease all funding to it and create an alliance of democratic countries apposed to communism, socialism and despotism with rigid membership requirements. USA, Australia, Japan, et.

Only then would I be open to being taxed.

[Mr. K]

"But its only a DOLLAR: I can hear the sheeple bleat already.

But remember- the INCOME TAX was originally a tax of 1/2 of 1% of any income OVER a million dollars (this was bak in what- 1914? who made a million dollars a year then- about 12 people?)

An look what income tax rates are now

[snowsislander]

One next logical step once the U.N. has a means to collect revenues would be to start planning its own monetary system -- call it the 'uneuro'?

I certainly hope that the U.S. is working to derail this nonsense, but I don't recall hearing any strong denunciations emanating from Washington yet.

[MichiganCheese]

Taxation without representation has been known to produce revolutions...