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Obama Pushes Bill That Would
Mandate Global Tax
Senate to vote on legislation
that would cost U.S. $845 billion, also enables UN to implement gun
bans
Prisonplanet | Feb. 14, 2008
By Paul Joseph Watson
Presidential
frontrunner Barack Obama is pushing a bill that will lead to the
implementation of a UN global tax, costing the U.S. at least $845
billion dollars over thirteen years in the name of fighting
worldwide poverty, as well as banning "small arms and light
weapons".
The "Global Poverty
Act," which is sponsored by Obama, is up for a Senate vote today,
and if passed would mandate the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of the
gross national product on foreign aid, on top of the money being
sent out of the country already.
The bill passed the
House by a voice vote last year because most members failed to read
what was actually in it. The words "global" and "poverty" in the
title were presumably enough to convince them that it must be good.
In reality, the bill also
"Commits nations to banning "small arms and light
weapons" and ratifying a series of treaties, including
the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto
Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on
Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination
of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the
Convention on the Rights of the Child,"
writes Cliff Kincaid.
"Jeffrey Sachs, who
runs the U.N.'s "Millennium Project," says that the U.N. plan to
force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid
spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already
spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, 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."
A UN controlled
global tax has long been a cherished goal of the elite and they have
attempted to piggy-back it on numerous different pretexts, most
recently via a global carbon tax on fuel, a move that was advanced
at the recent summit in Bali.
During the summit,
over one hundred prominent scientists
signed a letter dismissing the move as a futile
bureaucratic scheme which will diminish prosperity and increase
human suffering.
In 2005, former
French President Jacques Chirac called
for the imposition of a global tax to finance the fight against
AIDS.
Perfectly happy
with giving Bush carte blanche to continue illegal spying on
American citizens with the passage of this week's telecom immunity
bill, the Senate seems destined to rubber stamp legislation that
would lead to a global carbon tax.
President Bush has
overseen the biggest increase in foreign aid since the Marshall Plan
and is highly unlikely to veto the bill if it is passed.
Contact the Senate
and voice your opposition to this bill. Call the switchboard at
(202) 224-3121 and asked to be connected to the office of your
Senator.
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