The United States Senate may vote any day on the stealth imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens. 

It’s called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-2433

In my opinion, this Global Poverty Act cedes too much US. sovereignty
to the United Nations.

Why should the United States give money to the United Nation?  The United States is facing its own crises.

Bill is co-sponsered by:
Sen Gordon Smith R-OR
Sen Richard Lugar R-IN
Sen Susan Collins R-ME
Sen Chuck Hagle R-NE
Sen Olympia Snowe R-ME

Supported by:
This legislation is supported by a broad range of groups, including Bread for the World, CARE, Oxfam America, Habitat for Humanity International, National Wildlife Federation, Sierra Club, United Church of Christ, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Borgen Project, United Methodist General Board of Church and Society, RESULTS, and Micah Challenge USA.

I am providing a link to the UN’s Millennium Project.  It’s one overriding goal is globalization and redistribution of wealth.  There is a navigation bar on the left of the site that is very useful.  You will see that even though the US. CBO does not spell it our for you, this will help with your comprehension of what Obama and the people supporting the bill have in mind.  One big global family.

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/core_mdgs.htm

Gordy40 - 13 October 2008 03:06 PM

I am providing a link to the UN’s Millennium Project.  It’s one overriding goal is globalization and redistribution of wealth.  There is a navigation bar on the left of the site that is very useful.  You will see that even though the US. CBO does not spell it our for you, this will help with your comprehension of what Obama and the people supporting the bill have in mind.  One big global family.

http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/goals/core_mdgs.htm

Thank you for such an educational post.  A little tid-bit is the calls for eliminating private gun ownership world-wide, and provisions of the United Nations standing it’s own military!

I try to post facts. I’m glad you like seeing who co-sponsered it and who supports it.

fromtheslide - 15 October 2008 12:22 PM

I try to post facts. I’m glad you like seeing who co-sponsered it and who supports it.

I believe those who supported this garbage legislation are wrong on this issue.  I want DC to remain the seat of power.  I do not support ceding it to the Ivory Tower on the Hudson.

I may be over my head here, I am new to this forum, but I can’t keep quiet about this issue. I just get disgusted when people in the U.S. and other industrialized countries always complain about these bills that are aimed at helping others in the world, such as the Global Poverty Act. We may be in an economic crisis, but we still live in the land of plenty.  I mean, how many of you reading this own a cell phone?  An Ipod? You almost certainly own a computer, or at least have regular access to one. These people that this bill is aimed at go hungry every day while you and I live ‘high on the hog’ over here in the land of plenty.  This economic crisis is nothing but a wake up call to us, we can’t just consume, consume, and consume.  The material world is experiencing earthquakes.  We need to start living more simply, and give back more to these countries where people work and slave all day, yet can barely feed their children, much less give them an education.  So before you start bewailing an Act that will do some good in the world, try imagining working in a rice patty from sunup to sundown and hearing your children crying at night because they must go to bed hungry. If you think I am exaggerating, start doing your homework on global poverty.  A good place to start is Oxfam, http://www.maketradefair.com This nonprofit organization is nonpartisan, and they really do their homework to find long term solutions to ending poverty, not just giving them food.  They try to give them opportunity and a future source of food or income.  I fully support any bill that will help these people. What is wrong with one global community? Aren’t we all in this together?  Time to put our pride on the backburner and help out people who are effected even worse than us in this global crisis.  We are not the only country experiencing this global economic crisis. I mean, basic staples are becoming out of their reach because of this crisis. What have you given up because of the economic crisis? Soda, beer, eating out? Certainly not basic necessities and food.  So start thinking of others and stop pigeonholeing everything, like partisanship, race, nationalities.  This is a GLOBAL crisis!!

Obama sponsored this bill, and some Republicans signed onto it. They are all wrong, and they are globalists. It cedes too much authority to the United Nations. If fully implemented in tandem with the Millennium Project, it will do irreparable harm to US sovereignty.

I will post excerpts once again with a link.

The United States Senate may vote any day on the stealth imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens.

It’s called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.

In fact, Biden’s report incredulously states, “implementing S. 2433 would cost less than $1 million per year…“Technically he’s correct… after all, it doesn’t really cost that much to develop and formulate strategies…But such a cleverly worded contention begs the question: Why formulate or develop a strategy if there is no intention to follow through on that strategy?  ‘Implementation’ is not the same as ‘funding’.  They left the funding language out for a reason.

“In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration 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.“

“Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.“

“[T]he legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years… would amount to $845 billion ‘over and above what the U.S. already spends.‘“

“The plan passed the House in 2007 ‘because most members didn’t realize what was in it.‘ Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require.“

According to Kincaid, who published a report on the legislation; “A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.“ And that $845 BILLION global tax is in addition to our nation’s current Foreign Aid programs, which, in 2006, cost American taxpayers about $300 BILLION!

Here are some of the additional provisions of the Millennium Development Goal:a “currency transfer tax,“ that is, a tax imposed on companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign currency; a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources”; a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection—oil, natural gas, coal”; “fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.“ a “standing peace force,“ meaning a standing United Nations army that might, in time, be large enough to force us to bend to its will; a “UN arms register of all small arms and light weapons,“ the beginning of the end of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; the “eradication of poverty” by the “redistribution [of] wealth and land”

How do you suppose the United Nations expects to “redistribute” the land and the wealth? And what country do you think the third-world majority will go after first? cancellation of “the debts of developing countries,“ “a fair distribution of the earth’s resources.“ and “political control of the global economy.“

In other words, it’s a blueprint for a world government, owned and operated by the United Nations. One thing is clear: the Millennium Development Goal is a dagger aimed at the heart of America.

Other Appropriate Entities…Dr. Jeffrey D. Sachs—a Columbia University economist—is monitoring the Millennium Development Goal for the United Nations. In his 2005 report to Kofi Annan—based on the research of 265 “poverty specialists”—Sachs criticized the United States for giving only a mere $16.3 billion a year to alleviate global poverty. He argued that we should spend at least an additional $30 billion a year. And Sachs has decreed that the only way to force the United States to commit that much money is to IMPOSE A GLOBAL TAX. Has Senator Obama
—along with the other Senate co-sponsors—introduced the Global Policy Act at least in partial obedience to Sachs’ wishes?

Think of Johnson’s failed war on poverty going international—directed not by Americans but by the United Nations.“

http://www.elliscountypress.com/news/132/ARTICLE/1756/2008-05-05.html

tionne, welcome to the boards!

I agree with you and disagree at the same time. It is sad that so many kids around the world don’t have anything to eat. Not “enough” but nothing. While this bill sounds all warm and fuzzy, the problem I have with it is what Wythe’mom points out. It would cede WAYYYYYY too much power to the UN (which should probably change it’s name to the United Nations Against the Evil US, but I digress.) You can’t legislate compassion or morality. And a Global Poverty Tax is essentially compassion at the end of a gun. We’re not a one-world nation just yet. As long as there is greed in the world, there are going to be starving children. And we Americans have not cornered the market on greed by a long shot.