Senator Obama submits Senate bill to tax Americans to feed the worlds poor and disarm us via the United Nations

World socialism Barack Obama style.

S. 2433, The Global Poverty Act of 2007

Senator Barack Obama's bill S. 2433 would require the U.S. to initially direct .7 percent of our GNP into the United Nations coffers for distribution as they see fit, for "food" to third world nations. Under earlier agreements this would evolve into a national tax on the U.S. with the UN attempting to levy this on all first world nations. The U.N. would have the power to increase this rate of taxation. The U.S. would be required to surrender some of its sovereignty over foreign aid by putting it under UN control. The bill would force the U.S. to sign onto the U.N.'s Millennium Declaration, which would commit us not only to "banning small arms and light weapons" but also to adhere to the International Criminal Court Treaty and the Kyoto Protocol.

Global Poverty Act of 2007 - Directs the President, through the Secretary of State, to develop and implement a comprehensive strategy to further the U.S. foreign policy objective of promoting the reduction of global poverty, the elimination of extreme global poverty, and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goal of reducing by one-half the proportion of people, between 1990 and 2015, who live on less than $1 per day.

Requires the strategy to contain specific and measurable goals and to consist of specified components, including: (1) continued investment or involvement in existing U.S. initiatives related to international poverty reduction and trade preference programs for developing countries; (2) improving the effectiveness of development assistance and making available additional overall United States assistance levels as appropriate; (3) enhancing and expanding debt relief as appropriate; (4) mobilizing and leveraging the participation of businesses and public-private partnerships; (5) coordinating the goal of poverty reduction with other internationally recognized Millennium Development Goals; and (6) integrating principles of sustainable development and entrepreneurship into policies and programs.

Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary of State to designate a coordinator who will have primary responsibility for overseeing and drafting the reports, as well as responsibility for helping to implement recommendations contained in the reports

For the full article go to WashingtonWatch.com.

UPDATE:

Cliff Kincaid, president of America's Survival, says although Obama's "Global Poverty Act" sounds good in theory, it could impose a hefty global tax on Americans. And he concludes it would force the U.S. to spend 0.7 percent of its gross national product on foreign aid, which amounts to a 13-year total of $845 billion in excess of what the U.S. already spends.

Kincaid, who published an extensive report on the legislation, says the bill gives people insight into Senator Obama's (D-Illinois) mindset. "This reflects his Marxist view that the United States has really exploited the rest of the world in order to achieve success through slavery, and progress ...," says Kincaid. "And that therefore, because we are at this position in the world today, we're greedy and rich, [and] we have to spend all this money on the rest of the world. That is what drives his thinking," he details.

Not only would Obama's legislation amount to a global tax on Americans, warns Kincaid, but it would also commit the U.S. government to fulfill the "Millennium Development Goals" of the United Nations. And he says currently the U.N. considers the U.S. short $65 billion a year in funding the anti-poverty project.

Kincaid says the Global Poverty Act passed the House by a voice vote because many Republicans did not know what was in it. The measure also passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by voice vote with GOP support and is awaiting a floor vote.

The America's Survival spokesman is not alone in his criticism of the bill. Longtime conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly calls the Obama bill "costly, dangerous and altogether bad."