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> By Henry Lamb
> © 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
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> Two primary targets are now in the cross hairs of the global
> tax-mongers: carbon and currency exchange. Carbon taxes are being
> designed to modify social behavior while the tax on currency exchange
> is designed to increase U.N. revenue from about $11 billion per year
> to $1.5 trillion per year.
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> A revenue stream, independent of the voluntary contributions of member
> states, is all that prevents the United Nations from imposing, and
> enforcing, its vision of global governance.
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> Momentum is building for global taxation schemes to provide that
> independent revenue stream.
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> More than two-thirds of the American people support the idea of a
> global tax on foreign currency exchange, and a whopping 79 percent
> want a global tax on carbon. These numbers were collected by the ATI
> Foundation, and reported by the Washington-based Commission to Fund
> the United Nations.
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> The numbers likely reflect the pollster's skill at asking misleading
> questions, rather than a true reflection of the American attitude
> toward global taxation. Nevertheless, support for various forms of
> global taxation is growing, pushed by well-funded organizations such
> as the Commission to Fund the United Nations; the United Nations
> Association U.S.A., Friends of the Earth; and a host of other
> environmental organizations.
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> Carbon taxes are being discussed and presented as "Environmental Tax
> Reform" (ETR) which means, simply, taxes on the use of fossil fuel,
> while providing subsidies for non-carbon energy sources.
> Interestingly, nuclear and hydro energy sources are excluded from
> consideration for subsidies even though both are non-carbon energy
> sources.
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> Carbon taxes are designed to force people, especially those heartless,
> greedy Americans, to reduce their consumption and live a simpler,
> slower, healthier, lifestyle. Bicycles and frequent brisk walks are in
> store for those lazy people who Al Gore describes as people who burn a
> gallon of gas to go buy a gallon of milk.
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> The taxes will be called anything but taxes, and imposed
> incrementally. User fees, permits, registration fees, externalities
> cost adjustments, are but a few of the terms used to disguise the
> carbon tax. Bunker fuels (airplane and steamship fuel) are likely to
> be an early victim. Air travel represents only 3 percent of
> transportation fuel use, but it is easily taxed and the tax is easy to
> hide from the consumer.
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> Virtually all resource use is subject to ETR. Fossil fuel use will
> lead the way, but logging, mining, ranching and even farming are the
> focus of Environmental Tax Reform. Very little of the revenues from
> ETR will go to the U.N. The real money prize lies in the tax on
> currency exchange.
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> Global currency exchange exceeds $1 trillion per day, compared to
> about $10 billion per day traded on all U.S. stock markets. Nobel
> economist, James Tobin, calculated that if 0.05 percent of this
> exchange were taken as a tax, it would produce about $1.5 trillion,
> more than enough to fund all the U.N.'s ambitious social and
> peace-keeping objectives. U.N. advocates have been working overtime to
> create the mechanisms necessary to impose such a tax.
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> The Global Policy Forum, one of many non-government organizations
> working to secure independent financing for the U.N., claims that the
> United States is nearly $17 billion dollars in arrears in its U.N.
> payments. Other nations, too, are behind in their payments. Therefore,
> the argument goes, the U.N. must be free from the deadbeats, and have
> its own source of income.
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> Another, perhaps more powerful argument, arises from the recent rash
> of financial crises around the world. Mexico, Brazil, and most of Asia
> have had to be bailed out of economic disaster by massive loans from
> the International Monetary Fund, with money supplied by developed
> nations.
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> The Tobin tax would give the U.N. the necessary funds to provide
> assistance to these nations in trouble, without calling on the United
> States and other developed countries.
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> Moreover, of all the money exchanged in foreign markets, a full 80
> percent is estimated to be market speculation. The Tobin tax would
> dampen this speculation and reduce the profiteering by wealthy
> traders.
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> These arguments are gaining currency among Americans, and in the U.S.
> Congress. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., may be the last obstacle preventing
> global taxation. Even he may not be able to stop the momentum that is
> building.
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> The United Nations is already empowered to collect taxes from seabed
> mining operations. Maurice Strong, executive coordinator for U.N.
> Reform, is now consolidating the U.N. financial mechanisms into a
> single administrative department, a prerequisite step to global
> taxation. And an army of U.N. NGOs are stepping up their propaganda
> campaign, trying to persuade Americans to accept the idea of global
> taxation.
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> Once the U.N. is free from dependence upon the United States for its
> revenue, it can impose and enforce its brand of international law upon
> all the citizens of the world, including those who live in the United
> States.
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> Henry Lamb is the executive vice president of the Environmental
> Conservation Organization (ECO), and chairman of Sovereignty
> International.
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