There are lots of reasons to slash U.S. funding to the U.N. The most obvious ones are widespread corruption and misuse of funds by the U.N., as well as its bureaucratic inefficiency.
Now there is another reason. The U.N. recently voted to make the Palestinians -- who are partially ruled by the terrorist group Hamas, full members of UNESCO. That stands for U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
The United States has long had a congressional ban on funding any U.N. agency that recognizes "Palestine" as a state without the Israelis and Palestinians having reached some sort of peace deal.
With Palestinian rockets continuing to rain on Israeli civilians, it should be apparent to everyone that Palestinian leaders have no interest in peace with Israel but rather seek Israel's destruction.
Appropriately, the United States will now be cutting off the $80 million per year that our taxpayers provide to UNESCO.
The United States had pulled out of UNESCO during the Reagan administration but unfortunately rejoined it under President George W. Bush and has remained a member under President Barack Obama.
Cutting funding to a U.N. agency that gives official recognition to terrorists is the right thing to do, but the United States shouldn't stop there. The U.N. as a whole fully recognizes terrorism-sponsoring states such as Iran. So the next logical step should be to end funding to the entire U.N., not only to some of its agencies.
In fact, that is long overdue.