Interesting article in National Review Online: What If There Were an International IRS? Here Come the Globotaxers!, by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.:

While American leaders have been preoccupied with sectarian strife in Iraq, the rising threat from Iran, the controversy over having the United Arab Emirates run U.S. port facilities, and plummeting public confidence in both parties, another ominous danger has been gathering: international schemes for “innovative sources of financing” — a euphemism for global taxes.

Unless prompt action is taken by Washington, it is a safe bet that such initiatives will become a widely employed means of imposing burdensome levies on American citizens and businesses. “Globotaxes” will enable the United Nations to fund activities, operations, and priorities — including, in all likelihood, many our government and taxpayers would otherwise oppose.

No less insidious will be the effect on our sovereignty. Advocates of such international tax schemes make no secret of their ambition to redistribute wealth and to advance their longstanding goal of world government.