UN Conference To Promote Global Taxes; Bush Will Attend

NewsMax ^ | 3/12/02 | Cliff Kincaid

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I don't post in breaking news.

[gcraig]

A United Nations conference this month will ask world leaders, including President Bush, to consider global taxes to finance increased foreign aid spending.

Stupid idea. Next... -- This "global taxes" thing is NEVER going to reach the shores of America.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

President Bush usually sends a Representative.He is going himself. Makes me cringe to think of why.The article nor any U.S. press hints at our Presidents presence nor if he is even open for this.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Front Page.

The President could sign us all up for this global tax crap and I would think THAT would be breaking...this IS front page.

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

I don't post in breaking or front page or extended. Yes, I have stories which belong there, but I choose not to post in those areas.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

It was a closed door thought under Clinton.It is implementation/action time.Clinton would have gone for it.He may have slicked it in in a weekend E.O. to curb the controversy but he would have done it.

I am unsure at President Bush's intentions.No matter what is on his mind he represents us.Why is he going, himself? There is no luke warm here; either he signs us up and comes home and we get a b s speech on how it will save us and fight terrorisim and keep us "safe." Or, he will speak the truth and say HELL NO and that it cannot be done without usurping our constituition.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Bump

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Yep and not a word about how he plans to represent US!

[The Raven]

I knew there was some "government" out there that wasn't taxing me.

Bush needs to take a box of Ayn Rand books with him.

[Lion's Cub]

*GRIN*...I just pinged you to the same story (from CNS News) that I posted as a reply on another thread :)

I think they'll use that $2 trillion foriegn aid figure as a way to convince Americans that a UN tax would "share the burden" and take it off of American taxpayers. (We know it won't--but that's what they'll say.)

[Mitchell]

Here are four of the "repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States" that were enumerated as charges against King George in the Declaration of Independence:

• He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
• For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
• For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
• For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

What more need be said?

[Uncle Bill]

BTTT

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

How do we keep peace with the UN without partaking in Global taxes...?

[MissAmericanPie]

You mean like the good job NWO George has done with our borders and rewarding law breakers? Oh that's right he just legitimized them, now we have a new group of law unabiding citizens.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, get a grip. One would think that the enemy was Mexico, the way you guys go on.

[MissAmericanPie]

No, it's not Mexico that is the enemy here, they just do what one would expect them to.

[Mitchell]

How do we keep peace with the UN without partaking in Global taxes...?

This is a non-issue. The UN isn't going to go to war with the US to make us pay global taxes.

The UN is trying to talk us into it, to convince the US (and other countries) that it's a good idea. All we have to do is say no.

The danger is that the American people will be lulled into letting this happen, and tricked into thinking that it's a good idea. Proponents will play on liberal guilt, they'll encourage a misplaced sense of responsibility, and they'll make faulty predictions as to what such a tax would accomplish. Any proposed tax would be small at first and would (supposedly) directly target only the wealthy (as in this proposed Tobin tax on currency transactions); it would be so inconsequential financially that objecting to it will seem petty. And then it would grow, year by year. The trick for the UN is to get the basic structure in place and accepted, even if the initial amount collected is small.

But all we have to do is tell them, "No."

[timestax]

they won't get any Global tax out of me!!