Necessary Roughness

The Newark Advocate reprinted an editorial from The Times of Trenton, NJ. They are supporting a tax on international plane tickets to pay for medications in poverty-stricken nations.

The money would go through Unitaid, an organization under the United Nations.

Even if the UN were a trustworthy organization, instead of one that lined Saddam’s palaces with oil-for-food money, bought children’s books that advocated alternative lifestyles, and currently assists Hezbollah in rearming itself against Israel, there is still an important principle here, one of national sovereignty. An international tax, no matter how small, is the subjugation of the United States under the United Nations. Instead of the United Nations being a partnership of sovereign states, it becomes the government to rule them. It is not a stretch of the imagination to then imagine the American people getting used to UN rules and giving up more of our rights, such as the right to keep firearms.

The Constitution, beaten and bloodied as it is by two political parties and three branches of government, is still the supreme law of the land and has guaranteed our rights better than anything the United Nations has ever done.

You want to create a charitable organization to fight AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria? Wonderful. Just solicit voluntary donations like all other charitable organizations instead of pretending to be an über-government.