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The U.N is alleging to be preparing to enact a tax on international shipping in the name of global warming. This tax will also target U.S. shipping. The move is seen by Americans as being “taxation without representation” especially given the sentiment that the UN does NOT work in the interest of the American people.
Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said of the scheme, “No taxation without representation. Being taxed by the UN would be far more offensive than the taxes imposed by Great Britain against the American colonies more than 250 years ago. Those taxes sparked the American Revolution. The UN should be defunded, not seeded with new tax revenue.”
The United States boasts plenty of coal, wood, and fowl — enough to provide all the tar and feathers required.
Indeed, the globalist bureaucrats at the United Nations should remember how Americans deal with unconstitutional attempts at taxation.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.N. this week stands “poised to impose what amounts to a global tax on carbon emissions” — what the WSJ called “the ultimate in taxation without representation.”
Despite lacking both sovereign authority and enforcement power, the U.N.’s London-based International Maritime Organization could attempt to saddle ships with taxes ranging from $100 to $380 per metric ton of carbon dioxide that exceeds a certain emissions level.