Has anyone heard about this? Its bullsh*t. Guess who'll be paying all those taxes? Us!
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Daniel J. Mitchell

At the risk of stating the obvious, the United Nations hasn’t been America’s friend in recent years.

It has obstructed the war on terrorism. It has honored corrupt dictatorships with seats on its Human Rights Commission. Its budget is riddled with waste and fraud, and the United States pays the lion’s share of the tab. And it serves as a platform for anti-American rhetoric -- much of it from governments that receive U.S. foreign aid.

But this situation may be about to get worse. Led by France and Brazil, the United Nations now wants to impose global taxes. At a recent U.N. summit meeting, politicians from more than 100 nations endorsed a $50 billion global tax to finance even more foreign aid. Not surprisingly, the bureaucrats have many different schemes to fleece the world’s taxpayers.

One of the most popular ideas is a tax on financial transactions. This would have an especially adverse effect on the United States, which has the world’s largest financial system.

Americans probably don’t want to pay a tax to the U.N. every time they use their ATM cards, but that would be only the tip of the iceberg. U.N. kleptocrats also are considering a tax on energy use. So if you use your ATM card to get money to fill your car with gas, you might get to pay twice. But don’t let this upset you too much, because if you go online to complain to your congressional representative, you could pay another tax -- since taxing Internet usage is another global tax being contemplated by the U.N. crowd.

These ideas are bad enough, but the worst proposal is a scheme endorsed by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to create an International Tax Organization. This new super-bureaucracy would have vast new powers, including the collection of global taxes. The U.N. report endorsing this proposed bureaucracy even stated that foreign governments should have some ability to tax American workers.

Fortunately, there is some good news. President Bush opposes a new international tax bureaucracy and he has no intention of allowing the U.N. to impose taxes on American citizens. At the recent U.N. summit, Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman unambiguously rejected the global tax power-grab, noting that “global taxes are inherently undemocratic.

Heard about it. Nope, the UN isn't our friend.

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