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The United Nations is expected to pass an international treaty that will give disabled people more rights. The idea is to replace charity with rights to be enforced by an international government. Critics in the United States believe this move is part and parcel of the United Nations goal of creating more international power over nation-states. Recently, in another power grap, the UN proposed an international tax on businesses and individuals in order to feed, clothe and house the impoverished. The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted and the treaty is likely to be adopted...