Young Oak Kim: “right now the U.N. General Assembly is meeting in New York City and it is demanding we give more and more money to the…”

“right now the U.N. General Assembly is meeting in New York City and it is demanding we give more and more money to the United Nations. Now even Boutros Boutros-Ghali has proposed the idea of a new international tax, which means the American people pay income tax plus U.N. tax. How do my colleagues like that? Last year alone, the United Nations spent more than $4.6 billion. Guess how much our share was? Almost one-third. One-third we pay to the United Nations to support this. Look at the United Nations chart, how complicated, how messy it is. This is what the United Nations looks like. Look at this. This is nothing. I took as an example one of the small agencies down in the Food Agriculture Organization. Look at how messy that is. That is what that is, one small agency, one small operation. Look at how complicated it is. If we look at some other agencies such as the International Development Program, I need a sixth of this. That is what we are asking the United Nations to cut, by 22 percent, and my colleagues are calling us draconian, mean-spirited.”