Bob Dole: “Imagine a percentage of every international airline ticket, every letter mailed overseas, every international trade…”

“Imagine a percentage of every international airline ticket, every letter mailed overseas, every international trade transaction, and every exchange of foreign currency being collected for the use of unelected unaccountable international bureaucrats. Billions of dollars available outside the control of any government. Is this the paranoid fantasy in a science fiction thriller? No, it is the real world plans of United Nations bureaucrats, led by the current U.N. Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali to develop a network of global taxation to fund the United Nations outside the scrutiny of the United States or any other country. For years, United Nations bureaucrats and their allies in special interest groups and academia have dreamed about funding the United Nations through global taxes and other revenue-raising schemes. Taxes on air travel, military expenditures, postage, energy sources, currency transactions could raise as much as $300 billion a year--subject only to the whims of the bloated U.N. bureaucrats. Tax collecting would allow the United Nations to do as it pleases, not as its member states wanted. As Boutros Boutros-Ghali said earlier this month, such revenue power would mean 'I will not be under the daily financial control of the member states.'”