[Lion's Cub]

When he spoke to the delegates on Friday, however, Bush made it clear that U.S. aid would no longer be poured down the U.N. rat-hole as it has been in the past. U.S. aid will be placed into a special "Millennium" account, not simply handed over to the U.N. The U.S., not the U.N., will establish the criteria that must be met by developing nations before receiving U.S. aid.

I do give him credit for that, and for refusing a global tax administered by the UN.

But we ARE paying a form of a global tax anyway--an increase of $5 Billion by 2005.

No matter how you look at it, it's one hell of a tax for Americans to have to pay. So don't tell me I won't be paying a global tax. The UN just won't get to distribute it.

[A Navy Vet]

"So don't tell me I won't be paying a global tax."

It's NOT a global tax. It's a decision your elected representative make to try and improve the geopolitical climate. I've always been a critic against much of our foreign aid. But if the funds are managed and distributed by the US in return for reasonable reform from those who get it, I'm all for it. It's nothing more than asking welfare recipients to do a little work for their check, which I'm in favor of.