The U.N. collects billions in both dues and voluntary
contributions from the governments of the developed
world--first and foremost from the U.S., which
typically foots the bill for roughly one-quarter of
most major U.N. activities.
The actual U.N. budget is a slippery number.
The book-keeping is opaque, often tardy or incomplete
and spread across many parts of the U.N. archipelago,
with no single U.N. office fully accountable for the
entire system.
In 2006 then-Secretary General Kofi Annan said the
U.N. system-wide budget was about $20 billion;
by now, with ever-expanding U.N. operations,
funding appeals and hazily defined "partnerships,"
it is certainly larger.
But for U.N. spenders this torrent of other people's
money is not enough.
If you don't like your tax bill now, watch out for the
plans of the United Nations.
The U.N. has been cooking up proposals to tax you
every time you fly, drink, bank, use the Internet or
earn a buck.
For an institution that has yet to master the art of
policing its own accounts, that's awfully ambitious.
But an urge to dig ever deeper into your wallet,
dear tax-payer, has become a staple on the drawing
boards of U.N. plan-o-crats
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Much has been written about our current high
unemployment, but there is a strange reluctance by
both liberal and conservative commentators to assess
blame for the dramatic loss of well-paying American jobs.
The causes are not only the general recession and the
collapse of the housing market, but bad decisions by
government and business that deserve finger-pointing.
Since 2000, the U.S. has lost millions of jobs due to
outsourcing and insourcing.
Those are euphemisms for exporting high-paying jobs
to low-wage foreign countries, while importing an
uneducated underclass willing to work for lower-than-U.S.
wages without benefits
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