While the politicians play, the U.N. is busy figuring out how to replace the nation
state and, more importantly, how to pay for it. Cliff Kincaid recently published a report on proposals for "innovative
financing" to fund international schemes with American dollars. As reported by columnist Frank Gaffney, the
globotax system was discussed at a special international conference held in Paris at the end of February. These
proposals to tax without representation included the following agenda items.
A Basic U.N. Revenue Tax. A small fraction of one percent would be collected unobtrusively and automatically
from air transport fees, airline tickets, currency transactions, carbon emissions products such as gasoline and
arm sales. The tax revenue would be specifically aimed at reducing the U.N.'s dependence on member contributions,
especially the 25 percent that comes from U.S. taxpayers.
Immediate International Currency Tax. The German NGO WEED (World Economy, Ecology and Development) proposed
immediate implementation of a tax on all international currency transactions. Such daily electronic exchanges exceed
a trillion dollars a day.
Trade Union Tax Schemes. The conference supported a variety of tax proposals of the International Confederation
of Free Trade Unions. The American unions AFL-CIO
is a part of this 155 million workers affiliation of 236 organizations in 154 countries.
Major U.S. Charitable Foundations. The Clinton Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundation
were among the participants. In some cases, the NGO's supported by foundations are the contractors for international
programs and therefore strong advocates for expanding their reach.
Major Non-Government Organizations. NGO's with known political agendas such as Oxfam America, George Soros'
Open Society Institute, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and even the U.S. Catholic Conference
presented ways to obtain taxpayer money while avoiding the political allocation process.
The purpose of these sessions is to produce agreement on language that compromises opposition to international
taxes. There are two planning sessions leading up to the G-8 summit in Russia this summer. The globotaxers will
be there.
Key globotax supporters have declared in public their goals. "Our support to the launching of pilot mechanisms
is set in the wider framework of calling for the implementation of a real international taxation system,"
one of they said. "We do not consider pilot mechanisms as mere innovative tools to fund development but as
an embryo for global redistribution mechanisms. (Emphasis added.)
Traveling in South Africa last month, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg made a speech in which she graciously
pointed out that she had a majority of 5-4 for the practice of casting about overseas for laws and precedents that
support their opinions on the U.S. constitution. Much of the usefulness of looking abroad for guidance is that
the practice weakens the sovereignty of the nation state.
A good bit of the opposition to the Iraq war is also based on preventing a triumph for the nation state.
The globotax needs attention right now, right in the middle of everything else. It represents a competing government
to our own.
One in which the citizens have no voice.
03/17/06
