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One of these days, if the United Nations' potentates have their way, I am
going to receive a tax bill that will include a portion of my earnings
allocated to the UN. Their taxation powers will have been imposed as a new
layer on top of those paid to the United States.
As it is, my tax dollars and yours already contribute to the dues paid by the
US; a full 22% of the entire bill to maintain the UN, but not including the
money we give to UNESCO, nor the millions to fund the many military missions
we undertake for the UN, but for which we rarely, if ever, receive
compensation.
Last year, the US was voted off the UN Human Rights Commission, a seat it
held from its beginning in 1948. It has lost it seat on the UN International
Narcotics Board and now comes word that it may lose its leadership role with
the UN World Food Program where we contributed $24 million last year, more
than any other nation. The General Accounting Office is about to release a
report that former President Clinton diverted $24 billion, meant for our
military, for UN peacekeeping missions around the world from 1995 to 2001.
The "official" amount we are said to have contributed is $3.45 billion.
The notion that this nation owes any dues to the UN is a fraud. Had I any
choice, not one cent of my money would go to the upkeep of the UN.
For Americans and others around the world, if the upcoming March 18th through
22nd meeting of the UN's High Level Panel of Financing Development has its
way, this global octopus will spread its tentacles of power to impose global
taxes.
On the surface, the conference will be passed off as being about boosting
foreign aid to needy Third World nations. They are needy because they are
mostly run by despots who siphon off aid into their Swiss bank accounts or
spend it on military hardware instead of roads and bridges, hospitals and
schools.
They are needy because they oppress their own people and destroy their
ability to create any kind of a middle class who might unite to demand
freedom. In socialist regimes, they are provided with enough "free" services
to keep them (in theory) content.
The treaties and protocols created by this "Development" conference will be
added to the more than 175 that already directly affect the internal policies
of the United States of America, its individual States, and your local
government.
(1) They intend to create an International Tax Organization. My Father was a
Certified Public Accountant. Every year, until he retired, he wrestled with
an increasingly complex tax code issued by the Internal Revenue Service. I
learned to keep receipts for everything for him. Can you imagine trying to
deal with a United Nations tax code?
(2) They intend to levy global taxes and they have their eyes on those that
would affect every single financial transaction (currency) and on all energy
use. These taxes would most affect industrialized nations by redistributing
the funds to those for whom capitalism is an anathema. It isn't taxation.
It's theft.
(3) They are calling for something they call "tax harmonization." This would
permit high-tax nations, Socialists, to require their system be imposed on
all income earned in the United States. Thus, the welfare states of Europe
and the corrupt Third World nations would bring all their economic woes to
bear on the citizens of the US. Right now, the President is calling for
lower taxes in order to stimulate our economy. Under the rules being proposed
by the United Nations, this nation would not have that power.
(4) If someone from another nation moved to the United States, the UN
conference will propose that their earnings be taxed to ensure the payment
would be made to the nation they fled!
The conference will also call for the United States to increase its foreign
aid to "the annual equivalent of 0.7 percent of industrialized countries'
gross national product." This means our current level of foreign aid would
rise from $12 billion annually to more than $70 billion!
None of the language of the proposals that will be put forth at the UN
conference make any reference at all to lowering tax rates, a vital element
for economic development, nor will it discuss controlling wasteful government
spending.
This conference is about DESTROYING the economic strength of the United
States and the restructuring of our economic system to resemble the welfare
states of England, France, Germany and nations whose governments take up to
70% or more of the earnings of their citizens. They then redistribute it
into programs such as socialized medicine that simply do not work.
The conference is about controlling all multinational corporations, all
international transactions, turning them into cash cows for the United
Nations.
The United States has exactly one vote in the UN General Assembly. The vast
number of the other 185 nations would be the primary beneficiaries of this
scheme to deprive Americans of the right to determine what their tax codes
will be and how their tax dollars are spent.
Most Americans have no idea they are barely a month away from this act of
global government grand theft.
A treaty begins life officially when the UN General Assembly or a special
conference adopts the final draft of a proposed treaty. This draft is then
circulated to member nations for their "signatures." Delegates from the
participating nations "sign" the document, thus indicating their nation's
intent to "ratify" it. The signature does not bind the nation to the terms of
the treaty, but it does obligate the nation to "take no action contrary to
the treaty."
Americans are being duped into accepting restrictions that can do nothing
more than increase the cost of the use of all forms of energy by this nation.
If there isn't a massive outcry against the forthcoming UN "Development"
conference, we will all end up paying taxes to the United Nations.
There is only one solution. The United States must withdraw from the United
Nations or it will be subsumed into its plan to determine every aspect of
life here and in every other nation of the world. We will end up paying for
our own enslavement. There can be no halfway steps toward accommodation.
Wendell Phillips said, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." We are
about to lose ours.
Alan Caruba is the author of "The United Nations Vs. The United States", for sale from the Internet site of The National Anxiety
Center, a clearinghouse for information about scare campaigns at
www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2002
Published by permission.
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