U.N. wants more of your taxes

The American people already pay a bigger share for the upkeep of the bureaucratic, corrupt U.N. than any other nation pays.

But Americans and people all over the world would have to pay a lot more if the U.N. gets its way and establishes an anti-"climate change" fund paid for by big new taxes and fees that would harm worldwide economic growth.

"Carbon taxes," new fees on international flights and a tax when money is moved from one nation to another are all among the ideas that a U.N. panel says may be necessary to raise $100 billion per year to fight the climate change that the U.N. blames on man's use of fossil fuels.

But those measures could devastate economic growth. International commerce - not to mention tourism - relies in part on international travel. If you artificially raise the cost of international flights, you will get less commerce and less tourism. If you apply a tax each time there is an international financial transaction, you will get fewer of those transactions and thus less of the trade that helps world economies stay afloat.

Whether or not you buy the view that mankind is disastrously heating up the environment, there is no reason to think that funneling $100 billion more to the inept U.N. will do anything to solve that. Its track record with other big-spending programs inspires no confidence, and we should not throw good money after bad.

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