Too often voters in an election year wait to be asked by candidates for
Congress for support. It should be the voters who put the candidates on
the spot. This election is no exception. Conservatives have been
fortunate during the past twelve years in having the numbers to
influence the legislative process. The House and Senate leadership has
learned to ignore at its peril the thinking of the conservative
contingents. In this election we must make assure that the grassroots
conservative viewpoint is not only heard but heeded if we are to
continue wielding influence in Congress.
An important issue that many in Washington would prefer to ignore is our
role in the United Nations (UN). This issue hits the bullseye with the
conservative base, particularly those activists who realize the interest
expressed by the UN's bureaucrats in international taxation.
Cliff Kincaid, the relentless researcher who is President of the
pro-sovereignty America's Survival, details the UN's bureaucrats'
interest in taxing America and the world for more revenue. His latest
paper, "Growing Pressure for Global Taxes," is well worth reading this
election year. Kincaid's meticulous research turned up a paper written
by Peter Wahl, "From Concept to Reality: On the Present State of the
Debate on International Taxes." Wahl, an official with a German
nongovernmental organization (NGO), World Economy, Ecology & Development
(WEED), writes:
"In 1996, a number of UN Development Programme staff members published a
book...in which they proposed an international tax on currency
transactions (the so-called Tobin tax.) The publication may be said to
have opened the discussion on international taxes. Since then the debate
has grown in intensity. This is not at all surprising. After all, taxes
are not simply one economic variable among others.
"With their dual function - generating financial resources and serving
as a means to achieve regulatory effects - taxes are a key instrument
involved in giving shape to social processes."