"Obama's Global Tax"

[fed_up_mother]

Obama's Marxist global tax
Jim Bramlett
Jul 31, 2008

Obama's Global Tax

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Tuesday, July 29, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Election '08: A plan by Barack Obama to redistribute American wealth on a global level is moving forward in the Senate. It follows Marxist theology from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

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We are citizens of the world, Sen. Obama told thousands of nonvoting Germans during his recent tour of the Middle East and Europe. And if the Global Poverty Act (S. 2433) he has sponsored becomes law, which is almost certain if he wins in November, we're also going to be taxpayers of the world.

Speaking in Berlin, Obama said: "While the 20th century taught us that we share a common destiny, the 21st has revealed a world more intertwined than at any time in human history."

What the 20th century really showed was a series of totalitarian threats from fascism to Nazism to communism defeated by the U.S. military. Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Tojo's Japan and the Soviet Union offered destinies we did not share.

Our destiny of peace and freedom through strength was not achieved by a transnationalist fantasy of buying the world a Coke and singing "Kumbaya."

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During a time of economic uncertainty, the plan would cost every American taxpayer around $2,500.

If you're worried abut gasoline and heating oil prices now, think what they'll be like when the U.S. is subjected in an Obama administration to global energy consumption and production taxes. Obama's Global Poverty Act is the "international community's" foot in the door.

The U.N. Millennium declaration called for a "currency transfer tax," a "tax on the rental value of land and natural resources," a "royalty on worldwide fossil energy production oil, natural gas, coal . . . fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for the airplane use of the skies, fees for the use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels."

Co-sponsors of S. 2433 include Democrats Maria Cantwell of Washington, Dianne Feinstein of California, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey. GOP globalists supporting the bill include Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Richard Lugar of Indiana.


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Ok, got this in my email today, but am linking to the site. How to answer this? Eradicating global poverty should be a top priority, but this article makes it sound like Obama and the democrats are throwing away our sovereignty.

How to respond to this email? Frankly, I'm not in favor of everything in the article. It's the first time I can probably say that about Obama's platform.

Can someone help me decipher this, and separate the exagerations and downright lies from the good?

Thanks.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Why don't you start by deleting the link

don't want to increase that propaganda's google rankings now do we?

[fed_up_mother]

9. Because if I included the whole email, I think that's against the rules

It's an article. I've been answering all the stupid emails about "Obama's the anti-christ," "Obama is going to double your taxes," blah, blah, blah, but I don't know anything about this.

[FrenchieCat]

2. It's propaganda.

You should not be bringing it here.

There are loads of anti-Obama articles out there during this election year.
Are you gonna bring them all here? Cause I don't think that is gonna be a good thing.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. It should be brought up here, so people will know how to respond.

People have been posting emails they've received from GOPher friends/family members/co-workers. They ask other DUers for help on how best to respond.

[RB TexLa]

3. These fricking nationalists have been carrying the same banner since Wilson proposed the

League of Nations. Nationalism should be treated as a mental illness, it really should.

[Jackpine Radical]

6. Xenophobic, narrow tribalism fits well

with a brain deprived of its higher functions by chronic rage and fear.

[madeline_con]

4. Let's spread the facts, to refute this crap

From Bread for the Wrold:

The Global Poverty Act breaks new ground in three important ways:

For the first time achieving one of the Millennium Development Goals will be included in U.S. law.

Over 20 government agencies currently participate in development activities, sometimes at cross purposes. The Global Poverty Act would ensure the maximum benefit to those in greatest need by coordinating the efforts of each agency that administers aid.

13 of the world's major donors have reported on their progress towards meeting the Millennium Development Goals, while the U.S. has not. This legislation would require a regular report to Congress on U.S. progress towards meeting the first Millennium Development Goal.

http://www.bread.org/take-action/ol2008/global-poverty-act.html

[fed_up_mother]

12. Thanks! I appreciate the link.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Oh, my, I feel your CONCERN.

I assume you're kinda bored because there haven't been many billy goats going over your bridge tonight.

[Mojorabbit]

7. Snopes should have this

It seems to be a variation on one I got months ago and the bill was sponsored by a Republican and Obama.
The amt is waaaaay off and I think when I was looking it up the origin of the miscalculations was from focus on the family. Rush ran with it and my right wing BIL picked it up.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/434/

[fed_up_mother]

10. THANK YOU!

Jeesh, I thought this site was to help get the democratic candidate elected. I thought I could come here to refute some of this stuff.

[magellan]

8. And yet apparently it's okay to redistribute our wealth by sending our jobs and bombs overseas

Gimme a break.

[Jackpine Radical]

13. Sure, but those actions mostly redistribute wealth upward

rather than outward.