The vast majority of multi-millionaires and billionaires around the world are extremely generous with their wealth. Find me one, well-known millionaire or billionaire that does not have their own charitable foundation or does not support various causes with big dollars. The problem for the corrupto-crats at the United Nations is not enough cash is passing through their pet projects.
Of course, the UN couldn’t give a crap about that and their report fails to mention how charitable they already are. From AFP last night.
The United Nations on Thursday called for a tax on billionaires to help raise more than $400 billion a year for poor countries.
An annual lump sum payment by the super-rich is one of a host of measures including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, currency exchanges or financial transactions proposed in a UN report that accuses wealthy nations of breaking promises to step up aid for the less fortunate.
It’s not your money. It belongs to the UN and they think – of course – they know how to help poor countries better than anyone else. Sound familiar? Just replace the UN with the federal government and read on… Let’s make this clear, there are not many billionaires in the world. The UN estimates there are about 1,200 of them, and by using some sort of math miracle, they think they can get $400 billion a year from them in conjunction with other taxes “contributed to the cause.”
And there is absolutely no structure in place at the UN if they – and they will – totally waste 75 cents of every dollar confiscated. There is no recourse. There are no public hearings. No elections. If they can pull this off, what will stop the United Nations from demanding the confiscation of wealth from middle-class Americans? Certainly, they are living a much better life than those in poor countries. Isn’t it the right thing to do?
By the way, how’s Lyndon B Johnson’s War on Poverty going?
For the first five or six years of this effort, the trend was downward. We continue to spend hundreds of billions fighting this war on poverty in the United States and the poverty rate has not budged in more than four decades.
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I think the UN needs a “despot’s tax” to fully tap the majority of people running that corrupt institution.
1. After the black eye “Oil for Food” the UN is finding ways to get what it wants and letting someone else (the rich) get the black eye.
2. Can anyone now doubt the “New World Order” if the UN is trying to levy ANY taxes?
3. I am not for polluting our own water, but… the UN does sit right next to the East River.
Withdrawing from the UN could be a good plank for Romney.
I agree with ricbee. However after repealing bad parts of ObamaTax (with credit
To Sara Goss in “American Thinker”).
can MITTENS summon up the courage???
I agree, Ricbee, and have been saying that for years.
BTW, it’s not just the super rich helping out…how about UConn grad and WNBA star Tina Charles building a school in Africa? She didn’t want to just give money to someone: she saw it through herself…not actually swinging a hammer herself, but got the job done. And the WNBA ‘s pay is not great, but Tina is. All of Connecticut can be proud of this young lady.
UN money has to go through the corrupt leaders of these poor countries & little gets down to their suffering citizens.
A “carbon emissions tax”, more contributions from “wealthy countries”… who do these corruptocrats think they are. They waste more money in a single day then Barack Obama can blow in an entire week! The UN couldn’t be any less relevant then they are in todays world. Shut them down, kick them out of New York and use the savings to pay down our bloated national debt.
Poli-tricks at its finest.
Employ the cynical stratagem of class envy to manipulate a public whose building rage has been media cultivated- to sic them onto the sector of the population that could furnish the jobs that we desperately need… to get us to bite the hand that would feed us… support punitive taxes and more importantly to grant an organization like the UN tax jurisdiction within our borders- first to tax those contemptible millionaires and billionaires– but once the foot is in the door what’s to stop them from imposing forced charity on everyone?
If the UN has legal discretion to tax the assets of any citizen within our borders then it effective has authority to tax us all without regard to how much we hold.
If Obama gets re-elected, he will quickly push for ratification of the UN’s Arms Trade Treaty, birthed by Hillary.
Interesting position to advocate in light of the gun walking program pushed under his watch- which as far as I’m concerned makes the United States government an accessory to murder, rendering this administration unfit to lead in the first place- so as far as I’m concerned Romney will be running against a criminal in November. The lack of popular outrage is very telling I think. It’s very difficult to have much hope when so many people seem to be okay with that- though the MSM downplaying the whole debacle plays a role in that.
Clearly the O has little respect for our sovereignty.
Could there be any correlation between the welfare reforms of the 1990s and the reductions in raw numbers and percentages depicted in the graph?
Seems to me that isolationism in a globalized world is not a good idea.
Does that include defending our sovereign borders?
This is all part of Agenda 21
The UN just had its Rio +20 conference in opulent splendor and air-conditioned comfort. (Paid for largely by the US.) Only the Progressives, re-fried Socialists, actually think the UN has anything to offer. Along with touting their sad mantra of “sustainable development “, wealth redistribution, social justice, “green economy” and all of the points of Agenda 21 (with much more socialist sophism), it is simply shilling for money. Socialism has left Europe broke.
The UN Uber-seers of the world, connected people with impeccable pedigrees, sons and daughters of the titled and the elite, are truly the 1%-ers. A billionaire tax is laughable. As pointed out, there are just not enough of them. Millionaires have already been defined, by our millionaire president, as earners of over $150k annually (pick a number). More importantly, the argument will quickly devolve from taxing the monied to taxing the masses, the middle class. To quote <a href="http://en.wikipedia…
. . . To quote Willy Sutton, “. . . that’s where the money is.”
It takes a continuing cash flow to support the lifestyles of the 1%. Ca-Ching! Will $400 Billion really be enough?
My question is, at what point will the middle class cease to be able to pay any more taxes?
We may find out sooner than you bargained for. Use class warfare to gain support for foot in the door policies whose true objectives are realized when they get expanded to their true targets because the tyrants choreographing this mess understand better than anyone that the “billionaires” are effectively straw men to distract the real targets of any new tax… the middle class. At some point enough will realize that we’ve been getting played that those who are busy looting us will have real problems.
Exactly!
That “ski chalet” mansion in Geneva, the hide-away enclave in the Caribbean, and upkeep on the ancestral ranch in Montana costs lots of money. Oh, yes, I forgot about the apartment facing onto Central Park on 42nd Street.
United Nations? you mean “useless nations”
The United Nations is a lot like a department or division of a company where the owner sends the idiot son-in-law or nephew to keep him out of the way, except it’s populated by idiot son-in-laws from all over the world. It’s like the Island of Misfit Diplomats.
By George, I think he’ got it!
Yo, Tim, that’s a great analogy! It is set up like some weird kid’s fantasy world.
Thanks. And that should have been “sons-in-law.” I know more better, but didn’t write right.
Blame it on your I-Pad or P.C. I do.
When Romeny wins, Job#1 should be putting John Bolton back in that organization. Or SecState.
Amen brother !!