I realize this has been hashed and rehashed here, but we are getting close to the election and the current financial crisis we are having should put our country first.

This will allow the Un to tax this country 0.70% on gross national product and will cost the United States 845 Billion Dollars.

Why aren't we talking about this more. It passed the House last year.

Please go the UN websitre and read the Millenium Goals.
http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/


. S.2433 : A bill to require the President to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the United States foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people worldwide, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.
Sponsor: Sen Obama, Barack [IL] (introduced 12/7/2007) Cosponsors (30)
Committees: Senate Foreign Relations
Senate Reports: 110-331
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2008 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 718.



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Barack Obama's Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote
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By Cliff Kincaid
Feb 12, 2008


A nice-sounding bill called the "Global Poverty Act," sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations.

Barack Obama's Global Tax Proposal Up for Senate Vote

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