Decrying the "virtual news blackout" on next week's UN conference to impose global taxes, Tom DeWeese, president of the American Policy Center, a think tank, has written to President Bush, urging him to resist all such plans. A United Nations conference this month will ask world leaders, including President Bush, to consider global taxes to finance increased foreign aid spending. The March 18-22 International Conference on Financing for Development in Monterrey, Mexico, is organized by the U.N. with the participation of the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization. "There has been a virtual news blackout concerning...
