Doc Farmer has a very disturbing article on the UN and their desire to create world wide taxation. Just what we need, a corrupt organization trying to find more ways to skim money. - Sailor
International Taxation--An Idea (and Organization) We Cannot Afford
Written by Doc Farmer
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
A few weeks ago, I wrote with glee in my heart about a book by Rep. Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House of Representatives, who suggested the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service and of income taxes. Now, it would seem our esteemed president is giving the matter serious consideration. Personally, I’d love to be the guy who gets to push the button that turns the Infernal Robbery Service into a parking lot.
Now, however, my heart is downtrodden and my spirit is distressed. No, it’s not because John Kerry would take that dream away (although I do find that rather disquieting). Instead, there seems to be another group that wishes to tax us all.
The United Nations.
Yes, that home of unbridled stupidity (yes, even greater than Congress!), of corruption, of bribery, and support for terrorism and despotism, wants to tax you, me, and the rest of the planet. Well, the part of the planet that actually has an income.
Now, at present the member states of the United Nations are the ones who financially support this Great White Elephant on the East River. America, naturally, bears the greatest brunt of the cost, both directly and indirectly. We pay these incredible ninnyhammers millions of our tax dollars every year. New York City is further drained, since police protection for world leaders, ambassadors, and other scumbags, is paid for by local tax dollars. Throw in all the unpaid parking tickets that diplomatic immunity encourages, and you’re talking a serious chunk of change.
This, sadly, does not seem to be enough to sate the appetite of the United Nations' greed. Even the Oil for Bribes program, which brought BILLIONS into its coffers (as well as whatever millions were skimmed off the top by certain U.N. officials) is not enough for their greed. So, several committees were created (I wonder if we paid for those as well) to examine several ways to bleed Americans even more than we are already bled. In September, Kofi Annan and the General Assembly will start looking at how to raise $100 billion annually to meet their ''Millennium Goals''--a fancy term for wealth redistribution on a global scale.
Where would the money come from? Well, here are the items I’ve seen discussed:
E-mail Tax--Around $0.01 per megabyte. That doesn’t sound like much, but that can add up month upon month. The upside would be that international spam would be reduced--slightly--but the downside is that the companies who generate it would probably get an exemption. In return for a healthy ''donation'' to the Kofi-Klub.
Gasoline Tax – This tax would cost the U.S. consumers about $25 billion a year. The tax would be per litre as well, so Americans would have to pay 3.78 times as much. That alone would be enough to make John Kerry sprout antlers, although he’d be disappointed that the money wasn’t going into the Congressional Slush Fund. Ah, well, being the internationalist he is, I’m sure he could justify the cost to you. He’d have to do it in French, of course.
Coal, Oil, and Natural Gas Tax--This is part of the gasoline tax, but they’re calling this (are you ready?) the ''Carbon'' Tax. America has the largest coal reserves on the planet, and this tax would further reduce the attractiveness of that fossil fuel. Here’s a question; all life on Earth is based upon carbon. Will we have to pay a ''Carbon'' tax for every new child? I wouldn’t put it past these bozos.
Currency Transaction Tax--This is a good one. Taxing all the international money transfers. The banks already gouge folks for these transfers (and believe me, I know this one first hand), and now the U.N. wants to wet its beak in the giant martini of transborder funds exchange. Knowing the United Nations, they’ll use a bucket and start bailing at breakneck (or breakbank) speeds.
Air Transport Tax and Aviation Fuel Tax--I think these guys are taking a page out of America’s book. We tax people for gasoline, and we tax airlines for Jet-A. But we also tax passengers for flying (airport taxes), thereby paying two taxes for the same seat, the same lousy movie, and the same packet of stale pretzel bites. Every flight would be taxed by the United Nations. Think about how much the world flies on an annual basis.
So, what do we have? You’d be taxed for e-mailing your Uncle Reginald in London, you’d be taxed for the gas needed to get you to the airport, you’d be taxed for getting your dollars exchanged to Pounds Sterling, you’d be taxed for the Jet-A that keeps the airplane airborne, you’d be taxed for just sitting down into a seat that’s about three sizes too small, you’d be taxed for the taxi from the airport, and you’d be taxed AGAIN for all that stuff on the way back.
All of that tax would be going to the United Nations, which is arguably the most corrupt, mismanaged, and disgusting edifice to greed, stupidity, and hate ever conceived by lib/dem/soc/commies.
Coming out of your paycheck.
I know I’ve called for kicking out the United Nations before. In my fevered dreams, I see the ''diplomats'' stripped of their authority, frog-marched (especially appropriate for any cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys) at gunpoint out of Manhattan, and unceremoniously dumped onto a fleet of rusty Aeroflots with a one-way ticket from La Guardia to whatever hell-hole they hail from. I see the crumbling building of the U.N. razed to the ground, the rubble shot into the center of the sun, the ground salted so nothing may ever grow there again, and a single large block of marble in the center of the empty plaza as a monument to international stupidity.
If they actually try to tax us, however, then maybe we should just lock the doors of the place with all the ambassadors and bureaucrats inside, and then blow it up.
About the Writer: Doc Farmer is a writer and humorist who is also a moderator on ChronWatch's Forum. He formerly lived in Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but now resides in Indiana. Doc receives e-mail at docfarmer9999@yahoo.co.uk.
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