Since its founding over 59 years ago, the United Nations may have done some good. But objective historians and observers would be hard pressed to create a short list of major UN accomplishments.

More often than not, the UN, spending millions on its own bureaucracy with its endless meetings and reports, has been a waste of time and money, with most of that money coming from American taxpayers.
So it should come as no surprise that the UN wants to become an international IRS!

In other words, those worthies at the Tower of Babel on the Hudson want to impose on the already burdened taxpayers of the world, a new round of "global taxes" to finance the UN and its programs. This plan would supplement annual assessments of dues from each nation with direct UN taxes.

It was reported in various newsletters that in early 2002 a UN conference held in Monterey, Mexico, referred to as "the tax collectors meeting from Hell", where plans were mapped for a UN "international tax organization," a one-world IRS.

So wrong was this idea that it was hoped it would die a natural death. Unfortunately, at a recent visit to the UN, French President Jacques Chirac called for such world taxes, this time cloaked in fighting "world poverty." President Chirac proposed an international tax be levied on arms sales and some financial transactions in a bid to eradicate poverty.

Thankfully, Chirac's ideas were immediately rejected by the US delegation to the UN. Speaking for the Bush administration, US
Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said: "Global taxes are inherently undemocratic. Implementation is impossible". The US also refused to sign or agree to a UN declaration endorsing Chirac's global UN taxes.

We agree, and we hope that this will continue as the US official position after the forthcoming US presidential election..

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