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New push for global taxes: A renewed drive for global taxation threatens to accomplish the UN's goal of an international revenue service that would collect taxes from every person on the planet. (Cover Story: United Nations).
Perhaps it was an unintended irony, but the subject of global taxation -- one of the main attractions at the UN's Monterrey summit -- came at the worst possible time for those of us staring April 15th in the face. Americans and most other people these days are already taxed up to their eyeballs, yet the architects of the new world order are pushing more and more aggressively for a global taxation regime. To be sure, the idea of global taxes isn't new, but over the last four years or so, several global tax proposals have acquired dangerous new political momentum, thanks to the coordinated efforts of the internationalist establishment and the relentless "pressure from ...
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