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The United States Senate may vote any day on the stealth imposition of what could amount to an $845 BILLION United Nations style global tax on American citizens? It’s called the Global Poverty Act (S.2433), and it is being sponsored by none other than Senator Barack Obama.

This disastrous legislation could eventually force U.S. taxpayers to fork over $845,000,000,000.00 — in welfare to third-world countries. Here’s what Phyllis Schlafly, conservative activist and founder of Eagle Forum, recently wrote:

“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 $845 billion on foreign handouts…” [Emphasis Mine]

Ultra liberal Senator Joe Biden, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just issued a report on the Global Poverty Act and it was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on Thursday the 24th.

The bill defines the term ‘Millennium Development Goals’ as the goals set out in the United Nations Millennium Declaration…”

“In addition to seeking to eradicate poverty, that declaration commits nations to banning ’small arms and light weapons’ and ratifying a series of treaties, including the International Criminal Court Treaty, the Kyoto Protocol (global warming treaty), the Convention on Biological Diversity, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child.”

“Those U.N. protocols would make U.S. law on issues ranging from the 2nd Amendment to energy usage and parental rights all subservient to United Nations whims.”

And, how would the United States pay for this $845 BILLION commitment? According to a report on the legislation; “A global tax will clearly be necessary to force American taxpayers to provide the money.”

And that $845 BILLION global tax is in addition to our nation’s current Foreign Aid programs, which, in the single year 2006, cost American taxpayers about $300 BILLION!

Senator Obama’s Global Poverty Act has already passed the House (many Members unfortunately voted in favor of it without carefully noting exactly what was in it) and President Bush may very well sign it!

Here are some of the additional provisions of the Millennium Development Goal:

a “currency transfer tax,” that is, a tax imposed on companies and individuals who must exchange dollars for foreign currency;

a “tax on the rental value of land and natural resources”;

a “royalty on worldwide fossil energy projection — oil, natural gas, coal”;

“fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on the carbon content of fuels.”

a “standing peace force,” meaning a standing United Nations army that might, in time, be large enough to force us to bend to its will;

a “UN arms register of all small arms and light weapons,” the beginning of the end of the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution;

the “eradication of poverty” by the “redistribution [of] wealth and land” – How do you suppose the United Nations expects to “redistribute” the land and the wealth? And what country do you think the third-world majority will go after first?

cancellation of “the debts of developing countries,”

“a fair distribution of the earth’s resources.”

and “political control of the global economy.”

In other words, it’s a blueprint for a world government, owned and operated by the United Nations.

One thing is clear: the Millennium Development Goal is a dagger aimed at the heart of America.

While the Global Poverty Act, as presently championed by its Senate supporters, embraces certain aspects of the Millennium Development Goal, one should wonder if some of our legislators also support land and wealth “redistribution.”