“The Sierra Club supports policies that advance sustainable development initiatives and address the root causes of environmental degradation, including poverty and lack of access to basic healthcare. Reducing global poverty is crucial to achieving long-term environmental sustainability.” Sierra Club
Agreed, wealth is intrinsically important to improveing conditions because that takes work.
Work is produced by energy over time. This costs money because money basically represents the inherent value of work produced.
Reducing poverty is important.
Now progressives like the Sierra Culb want to tax money from us and give it to the UN to distribute to help poverty. From the Gobal Poverty Act 834 Billion. Great spend as much money as you want as long as we 1) have it to spend. This means the government has the cash from taxes in hand. You can’t barrow money to do this. Otherwise Government will not be responsible and we might end up with a 45 trillion dollar debt. 2) The taxes are not taxes on private wealth, income okay sales ok, not property tax. 3) Everybody pays. It is horse drake that only someone pays and everyone votes. 4) The taxes are reasonable, as in competitive with other economies. Like Eastern Europe, who countries have a flat tax and governments are running surpluses.
We need a feedback system on our Government. If we don’t feel the sacrifice then we don’t get the blessings of being charitable. Also we have to chose to give. In other words if the poor don’t pay their token percentage then they have no incentive to reign in government spending. If only the becoming rich pay then there is not enough incentive to become rich. If only the already rich pay then the already rich move else where to where there is lower taxes. (note corporate leavings) If any of the above conditions aren’t met then the nation becomes poorer. Hence there are less resources to give away for others benefit.
To reiterate we have to choose to give always even if it is a token percentage. We have to work to receive money. Otherwise the American Values of Work Ethic go away. And if we don’t see the person receiving the gift then we don’t gain anything from giving, and the ones that we serve don’t have any gratitude for receiving. Then no one can be rich because the work ethic is gone and no one can receive help to make their work more effective because the rich are gone and then there is no love for the lack of gratitude and service. This downward cycle is called a depression.
Our representatives should have a tax form that Itemizes things like these global charity’s. The only exceptions are defense, Government take what you need for an Military, and Roads. You notice a lot of people hate freedom around the world. Infrastructer is an investment the the government actually manages pretty well. .
We should be able to voluntarily check a box on the Tax Form and pay more towards an endeavor, such as the Global Poverty Act. Till then Small Government. My Ideas for Charities; Student Loans (PerpetualEducationFund’s) and Grants. Ah HUD Houseing, Ah Health Care, maybe not depends on abuse issues, Ah welfare, nah workfare unless recipients can’t work. Ah war torn African nations hmm stop the wars first and send over food in the mean time. R&D Yes (aka NASA DARPA) Then again do you trust the Government to distribute these funds. Education ,Part Grant part loan. Yes Global Poverty act. No. XXY Yes XXXW No. Do you get the picture. Freedom to spend money is great. Technology like Alternative fuels in non ICEs will do wonders for our economic bottom line.
Not an involuntary tax in there because we the people are chooseing. Capitalism is great isn’t. Imagine what low taxes would do to those donations.
Unfortunately this is not the system the Sierra Club wants. They want to increase taxes a lot and borrow lots of money because lots of taxes aren’t enough to fund their anti poverty improvements and they want to give the money to the UN. Can you say waste of resources that could have actually helped the environment or the economy or fuel cells or students or research. And best of all the Government just takes this while US citizens aren’t paying attention. Thank you Democrates. (they have current control of Congress) Thank you Liberals like Nacey Pelos, Sierra Club, Kennedy, etc. More Condemnation to the latter. I think that most Democrats and Republicans are just asleep.
