Conspiracy: Global Tax Next on Obama Agenda?
While the national battle over government-controlled health care is in its final stages, participation in a United Nations-run Global Poverty Tax is expected to come up for a vote in the US Congress any time soon, according to conservatives who fear it is a giant step towards handing over US sovereignty to the United Nations and foreign governments.
This is yet another plan by Progressives to allow a United Nations style tax on American citizens, according to officials at the American Conservative Union. ACU officials say that this “sickening bill could potentially force the United States to spend as much as $845,000,000,000.00 on welfare to third-world countries.”
While the Senate record of President Barack Obama may appear to be a bit lacking, he did take a leadership position in pushing forward this unique piece of legislation. While the idea of eliminating global hunger and disease throughout the world would be a worthy goal, critics of the Global Tax say this legislation appears benevolent only on the surface.
Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the UN’s “Millennium Project,” says that the UN plan to force the US to pay 0.7 percent of its GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the US already spends. Over a period, from the time when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
Obama’s bill has only six co-sponsors. They are Democrat Senators Robert Menendez, Maria Cantwell, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin, with Republican Senators Chuck Hagel and Richard Lugar,. But it appears that Biden and Obama see passage of this bill as a way to highlight Democratic Party priorities in the Senate.
“This is the same tax on Americans that the socialists and New World Order enthusiasts have been dreaming about all these years. Americans are a generous people and may believe their leaders want to help the impoverished, but it is an idea that in reality is just one step closer to Globalism,” claims political strategist Michael Baker.
“The socialists would like nothing better than to tax the people of the United States with the blessings of liberal-left American politicians and activists,” he said.
“What is driving the global taxation agenda is a Marxist view that the US is exploiting the people and natural resources of the world. According to this perspective, international institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and even the UN must be restructured and provided with new financial resources to supervise and manage the redistribution of the world’s wealth. The United States, being the leading capitalist state, has to pay the largest price,” said Accuracy in Media’s Cliff Kincaid.
“Their attitude was expressed at a non-governmental organization forum in Monterrey, Mexico, associated with the U.N.’s International Conference on Financing for Development, that Christopher Columbus ‘invaded, destroyed and pillaged’ the hemisphere and that a global tax was necessary to pay for the damage,” said the news media watchdog.
According to critics of the Global Tax, since no one wants to be on the record as not wanting to combat poverty, some politicians — without a doubt — will feel pressure from some of their less courageous colleagues to go along with a policy they know is harmful to the American people. Plus members of the news media have shown themselves to embrace socialism and will help to get this horrendous Obama-sponsored bill passed without alerting Americans about its ramifications.
“This is all part and parcel of a new world order: Third-World countries taxing the American people,” said award-winning actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Law & Order) and political activist Michael Moriarty.
“These Maoists and Stalinists realized they could never bring people in other countries up to the standard of living we have in the United States. So, what do they do? They try to drag down the American people so that they are as poor and miserable as the impoverished in other countries,” accuses Moriarty, who is a regular contributer to EnterStageRight.com.
“It is not humane to burden the American taxpayer with billions in additional foreign aid. It is more than unacceptable,” he added.
“How do liberals fight poverty? They make more people poor,” said a New Jersey school teacher who has been critical of this nation’s government schools.
“If history is to be our guide, American ‘foreign aid’ often winds up lining the pockets of Third-World tyrants and bureaucrats who hate America and do very little to help those who are truly in need,” she said. “Remember the United Nation’s Oil for Food scandal?”
The educator points to the United Nation’s Oil for Food criminals who made extraordinary amounts of money while the Iraqi people went hungry as an example of the failure of internationalists to help people.
“I’m always reminded that when politicians say they want to help you, the best thing you can do is run away from them as fast as you can. They’re not in the business of helping people — they’re in the business of grabbing as much power for themselves as possible,” said Baker.
“Obama’s costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts…
“$845 BILLION is hardly a drop in the bucket and, yes, that’s in addition to our Foreign Aid programs, which, in 2006, cost American taxpayers almost $300 BILLION!”
“If the Democrat-controlled Congress passes this bill, the United States will have taken the first step toward the complete surrender of our national sovereignty,” Baker said.
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance (thenma.org). In addition, he's the former editor for the House Conservatives Fund's weblog. Kouri also serves as political advisor for Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Michael Moriarty. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com and PHXnews.com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. To subscribe to Kouri's newsletter write to COPmagazine@aol.com and write "Subscription" on the subject line. | More from Jim Kouri, CPP
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