Yet tax happy liberals demand more. The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a vote after the July 4th recess, according to the office of Kay Bailey Hutchison, according to AmericanThinker.com. This is nothing more than a proposed global welfare system, part of a nefarious U.N. plot to impose a Global Tax under the guise of the Millennium Development Goal. The taxation is scheduled to begin as an energy or fuel tax. Taxes on currency exchange, land, sea and even the air are among those slated to follow. The Center for Individual Freedom has the facts:
"The bill's main sponsor, Senator Barack Obama -- along with the other sponsors, including a group of Republicans-In-Name-Only (RINOs) such as Senators Chuck Hagel, Olympia Snowe, and Richard Lugar -- probably hopes you have forgotten.
There are legislators on both sides of the aisle who would love nothing more than to slip it by the Senate one sleepy, summer day.
This bill has already passed the House by voice vote and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote. That means your legislator can tell you he is "against it" even if he shouted out "Aye" at the top of his lungs."
As author Edward Cline explains: "This is a stratagem adopted by legislators who fear that a bill is so outrageous that it is better that no record be kept of those who endorsed it. S.2433 was passed from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the same manner - by voice vote, without public hearings, to protect the identities of the guilty."
What's it about? Vincent Gioia, writing in Right Side News, says:
"The Global Poverty Act (S.2433) would require the United States to spend $845 billion ($845,000,000,000.00) on welfare to third-world countries. This amounts to a tax of over $2,000 on each man, woman and child in the United States. The foreign aid budget now stands at $300 billion; the Act would add the additional expenditure to the already huge amount allocated to assist the world."
And Phyllis Schlafly wrote recently:
"Obama's costly, dangerous and altogether bad bill (S. 2433), which could come up in the Senate any day, is called the Global Poverty Act. It would commit U.S. taxpayers to spend 0.7 percent of our Gross Domestic Product on foreign handouts..."
WorldNetDaily.com quotes Cliff Kincaid at Accuracy in Media as saying:
"[T]he legislation, if approved, dedicates 0.7 percent of the U.S. gross national product to foreign aid, which over 13 years... would amount to $845 billion 'over and above what the U.S. already spends. The plan passed the House in 2007 because most members didn't realize what was in it. Congressional sponsors have been careful not to calculate the amount of foreign aid spending that it would require."
"President George W. Bush and each and every one of the Republican Members of the Senate -- particularly Republicans-In-Name-Only (RINOs), such as Senators Chuck Hagel, Olympia Snowe, and Richard Lugar.Tell them you sincerely hope that reports of the Global Poverty Act coming up for a vote right after the 4th of July are premature and unfounded. Tell them that when the American people say DO NOT pass the Global Poverty Act, they mean just that. Tell them it DOES NOT mean, pass it when you think no one is looking!"
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