Posted on 02/12/2008 7:36:41 PM PST by Zhang Fei
A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has not endorsed either Senator Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton in the presidential race. But on Thursday, February 14, he is trying to rush Obama's "Global Poverty Act" (S.2433) through his committee. The legislation would commit the U.S. to spending 0.7 percent of gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a phenomenal 13-year total of $845 billion over and above what the U.S. already spends. The bill, which is item number four on the committee's business meeting agenda, passed the House by a voice vote last year because most members didn't realize what was in it. Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require. According to the website of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, no hearings have been held on the Obama bill in that body. A release from the Obama Senate office about the bill declares, "In 2000, the U.S. joined more than 180 countries at the United Nations Millennium Summit and vowed to reduce global poverty by 2015.
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You may want to post excerpts of this explanation:
http://www.virginiainstitute.org/viewpoint/2005_09_5.html
I’m trying to figure that out myself. One thing we can do is take all possible deductions available, and then just not pay the tax bill due in April. If enough people do this in protest, perhaps the Gov will get the point. Either that, or we’ll all be taking a vacation.
If you could convince me that at least 25 percent of the tax base would actually follow through with this, then I could be persuaded. Otherwise it becomes an exercise in “we all hang seperately.” There has to be at least 50 million individuals doing this. And how would any man know that this was so? Promises in the blogosphere do not cary much weight in a fereral tax court.
Change....change for your trillion!
Ordinarily I would agree, but Obama has a cult following which suspends all logic.
I believe Obama will become president, and that our nation will suffer horribly for it.
I agree, and completely understand. I would not want to be hung out to dry either. Oh, if we only could have another “Boston Tea Party”.
They need to reinstate the president’s authority to impound funds. Just let them refuse to spend the money.
“The grim realization that Im going to have to vote Queeg is starting to hit me. It feels like a flu... in my soul.
I hate this damn election.”
Me too... I might sit out if Clinton is the Dem nominee, but Obama is too dangerous to get anywhere near the Oval Office.
pretty entertaining
the Obamination of desolation movement is populated by idealistic twits
think i'd even trust McCain at the helm over hussein or hillary
Thanks, StarFan, for the heads up on this one.
And when Ron Paul votes against something like this, he gets slammed by FReepers who say, "he voted against _______," where the blank is something else in the bill that FReepers want.
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Worst Case = Hillery
Less Worse - Obama
Other way around IMHO.
I believe Obama will become president, and that our nation will suffer horribly for it.
But we will get out daily does of BS everyday. He will be quite the communicator. We will hear about how great everything is while our paychecks decrease every payday, but don’t worry everything is great. Oh this is horrible. I want to start this campaign all over again.
The next four years are going to be a roller coaster ride.
Moments of sheer panic with extended periods of anxiety. Maybe McCain will flip one off into Iran or North Korea.
Religious groups hey? So government wants to tax us and give to thier fav charities?
That is a good idea; but one that the MSM and elites would dismiss as a symbolic protest by the usual crackpot suspects.
The trouble is America is now a nation of 280 million people... and we are not all of the same “mother country,” as was the case at time of the events in Boston.
Multiculturalism has melted down the “melting pot”, and class envy has accomplished much to prevent any agreement on those things that ought to prompt a national revolt. Divide and conquer is the operative phrase of the anointed Washington establishment.
During the eighteenth century a comparatively small population, and far more than the inconsequential “few”, rallied to a cause not as “Americans,” but rather as English subjects of the English Crown, who were denied their rights as Englishmen.
Today, everyone is so enamored of success that concepts so intrinsic to liberty, as are economic freedom and the rights of property, may be incrementally whittled away without much more than a whimper. Moreover, the oppressing government is not on another continent, separated from us by 2000 miles of ocean... rather they are our fellow countrymen.
There are simply too many “individuals” to form a unified consensus of action, verses belligerent words. We even fail to marshal a fair percentage of supposedly conservative citizens to agree what comprises the basic principles of our so-called Republican Party.
Too busy setting up Roger Clemens for perjury and obstuction charges...
LFOD...
Unfortunately your words ring all too true. And, so another once great democracy crumbles into oblivion, fueled by the “feeding at the public trough”.
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