Do you support Obamas GLOBAL tax proposal? The politics of Global warming explained.?

User in the carobon tax! The “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. Senator Joe Biden, is trying to rush Obama’s “Global Poverty Act” (S.2433) through his committee. Jeffrey Sachs, who runs the U.N.’s “Millennium Project,” says that the U.N. plan to force the U.S. to pay 0.7 percent of GNP in increased foreign aid spending would add $65 billion a year to what the U.S. already spends. Over a 13-year period, from 2002, when the U.N.’s Financing for Development conference was held, to the target year of 2015, when the U.S. is expected to meet the “Millennium Development Goals,” this amounts to $845 billion. And the only way to raise that kind of money, Sachs has written, is through a global tax, preferably on carbon-emitting fossil fuels. Link... http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamas-global-tax-proposal-up-for-senate-vote/

Public Comments

1. Nope but he and "owl" Gore may be on to something
2. I am against the Global Poverty Act and I am against Global Warming as told to us by Algore is the Gospel truth on this subject.
3. There is no possibility of a "global tax" because there is no global government to enact such a tax. I do, however, support John McCain's proposal to set up a cap & trade system to regulate carbon emissions.
4. No and no. Our Constitution explicitly prohibits giving our sovereignty to an entity not Congress, which is what this is. What really angers me about this is Republicans go along with it.
5. link?
6. The Global Poverty bill was introduced in 2005 before anyone had even heard the name Barack Obama. The republicans supported the bill, including George W. Bush. Obama has just re-introduced the bill. There are 180 other industrialized nations who are part of the act, not just the U.S. It is in our best interest as one of the most prosperous nations on earth to do our part to end global poverty. I can't understand why so many are against it.
7. The global warming scam is setting the stage for the global carbon tax with the UN being given the taxation authority while of course taking the billions of the cut for administrating it!
8. No. This is not going to work. The government will find a way of avoiding the obvious path and will end up paying with money that is going into providing lower-class people proper health care or something else that America really needs.
9. Taxes are theft whether you like it or not
10. There is no way that I support this tax. Why should we be paying taxes, to fix problems of other countries when they themselves should be fixing their own problems. This is nothing but a liberal wearing his feelings on his sleeve. Trying to take a problem that I personally do not believe is real, and forcing people to fix it. It's not our job to fix other countries. And we should never give are authority as a nation, to the United Nations. The most worthless organization on God's green earth.
11. Its about time someone brought the US to task, to be honest. Biggest polluter in the world, and getting away with it because its the richest country in the world. No-one else takes global warming seriously while the US take the piss. And why should they? The Chinese are building dirty coal power stations because they are cheap and because they see their competition refusing to sign the Kyoto treaty etc. (Think the US have signed up now though - and about feking time)
12. My goodness, are people still pretending that government fiat can stamp out poverty? Been throwing money at the poverty problem for decades, no help that I can see. No reason to let neanderthal ideas like economic freedom and the rule of law take a shot at raising living standards in third world countries.
13. i'd rather spend the 65billion for that than to spend it destroying and rebuilding other countries.
14. No, That is the Carbon tax con game. We give them $850B to the UN and get nothing in return. That is akin to international blackmail and it is a very business move. Buying into that crap is Obama's inexperience showing. If he's elected, you will see even more poor choices by him that are not in the best interest of this country.
15. Yes. Its long past time we allowed the fossil fuel industry to dictate America's energy policy. They need to be reied in and the market opened up to competition. There are a wide range of technologies and strategies for both improving energy efficiency (which saves consumers money) and cost-effective alternative energy production. Some have been available---and practical--for decades. They have een blocked from wide-scale implementation for the sole purpose of forcing Americas to continue topay high prices for fossil fuel energy. Want an example? One you cancheck jsut with a bit of research on the Internet? Last year, the Congress passed an energy bill that included a provision requiring that fuel efficienc in new automobiles be raised from the current average of 17 mpg to 25 mpg--which, obviously , will save consumers a good bit o fmoney, as well as helping the environment. Well, the biggest lobbyists (to the tune of several million dollars) against that were the oil companies. They sought, in short, to stop a bill that woud benefit consumers, reduce our dependance on foreign oil, and help reduce carbon emissions--simply to maintain inefficient cars so they could force us to buy more gasoline.
16. No way. this is a taste of things to come if Obama is president.
17. It would be like giving every bum on the street corner that you see while in cities, $10 dollars a piece. The world’s population is over 6 billion and the number of poor people in third world nations is staggering. As it is the government holds us hostage in taking from us 3.2 trillion dollars every year. At some point, future generations will say “ENOUGH” , and will simply not pay for it. I wish the voters could have seen it coming down the pike, but looking at the political outlook of McCain, Hillary, or Obama, (liberal, more liberal, and socialist) we are fried.
18. No way in hell. Let them get 1 tax,they'll be back for more and more.
19. absolutely not. this country is the greatest creator of wealth ever seen, if the world wants to end poverty, maybe they should all go capitalist and give their citizens the right to get out of poverty instead of getting a handout from us through the UN that the leaders of the country will hoard