Posted by
Conservative in Paradise on Monday, October 09, 2006 1:00:24 PM
You ever wonder why we pay so much in taxes? Well one reason can be found in our funding of "Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a
Paris-based bureaucracy best known for its dry studies, reams of
economic statistics, and world-class wine cellar."
This organization gets $400 million a year from 30 countries, including $85 million from the American taxpayers. I am outraged that we are supporting this organization because of what they seek to do. As reported by Human Events,
Paris-Based Bureaucracy Threatens U.S. Pro-Growth Tax ReformsWhat few know is that the OECD poses one of the greatest threats to the
enactment of pro-growth tax reforms in the United States and across the
world. Remarkably, the U.S. contribution has underwritten mountains of
studies full of Orwellian language that accord the highest moral
standing to those countries that impose the highest tax burdens on its
citizens and demonize those that don’t. It focuses on so-called
“problems” such as “the role of tax intermediaries (e.g., law and
accounting firms, other tax advisors and financial institutions) in
relation to … the promotion of unacceptable tax minimization
arrangements.My colleague Dan Mitchell translates this gibberish as: “a handful of
bureaucrats in Paris … want to insulate governments from the discipline
of market forces.” Bureaucrats, I might add, who (ironically) pay no
taxes on their salaries.The OECD’s ultimate goal, Mitchell believes, is to “undermine tax
competition in order to prop up the destructive policies of high-tax
welfare states.” Indeed, previous OECD studies have criticized tax
competition because it “hampers the … achievement of redistributionist
[i.e., socialist] goals.” Low-tax policies, the OECD believes,
“unfairly erode the tax bases of other countries and distort the
location of capital and services.”
A Cut for Population Control Money?
Not only is our government supporting these bone heads in another Human Events article I read today we are also paying $357 million this year, down from the usual $425 million congress would like to spend, on what is called "population assistance", in layman terms population control, for third world countries. All this government waste to fund secular ideas, policy, and programs. And we are flipping the bill. Americans need to get tough and stand up for what is ours. I remember a party who was born out of one cause "the right that all men are created equal" and today as a country we are torn over so much more then equality and we are not as organized as those brave men and women were. We need to remember the words of Congressman Davy Crokett to congress in the early 1800's.
“Mr. Speaker, I have as much respect for the
memory of the deceased and as much sympathy
for the suffering of the living as any man in
this House, but we must not permit our respect
for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the
living to lead us into an act of injustice to the
balance of the living. I will not go into an
argument to prove that Congress has no power
to appropriate this money as an act of charity.
Every member upon this floor knows it. We
have the right, as individuals to give away as
much of our own money as we please in
charity, but as members of Congress we have
no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public
money. Some eloquent appeals have been made
to us upon the ground that it is a debt due
the deceased. Sir, this is no debt. We cannot
without the grossest corruption, appropriate
this money as the payment of a debt. We have
not the semblance of authority to appropriate
it as a charity. I cannot vote for this bill, but
I will give one week's pay, and if every member
of Congress will do the same, it will amount
to more than the bill asks.”