When the Beatles sang about how money can’t buy you love, they were only half right; it can’t buy you smarts, either.

He might be a whiz kid at creating computer software, but beyond that Bill Gates has proven time and again that he hasn’t a clue about why or how freedom works.

. . . Clearly Gates is a captive of his own wealth, suffering the usual rich man’s guilt over being rich – rushing full speed ahead to “give back to the world.” Funny how such giving back always seems to mean supporting socialist causes with money gained from the free market. Up till now, Gates has just been giving his own money voluntarily. Even if it’s to bad causes, he is certainly free to use his money anyway he chooses.

Now, however, his misguided meddling is about to involve the misdirecting of everyone’s income, and so the world’s richest useful idiot just became dangerous to freedom. — American Policy Center Report, “Global Poverty Act Is Back: Is Bill Gates the World’s Richest Useful Idiot?”

At first, it started out with innocuous moniker of “The Charter for Global Democracy”:

Specifically, the Charter for Global Democracy was intended to give the UN domain over all of the earth’s land, air and seas. In addition it would give the UN the power to control all natural resources, wild life, and energy sources, even radio waves. Such control would allow the UN to place taxes on everything from development; to fishing; to air travel; to shipping. Anything that could be defined as using the earth’s resources would be subject to UN use-taxes.

There was one major problem with the Charter for Global Democracy, at least as far as the UN was concerned. It was too honest and straightforward. Overt action displeases the high-order thinking skills of UN diplomats. The UN likes to keep things fuzzy and gray so as not to scare off the natives. That way there is less chance of screaming headlines of a pending takeover by the UN.” — American Policy Center Report

So the proposal was rebranded the “Millennium Declaration,” same bottle, different label.

Crucial to the implementation of the Declaration will be a Global Poverty Tax [a.k.a. the Tobin Tax] — 0.7% of each sovereign nation’s GDP — which was first promoted in Congress by then-Senator Barack Obama. The tax would be expected to net at least $845 billion over ten years, all of it going to the UN to promote “social justice” and “eliminate global poverty” by 2015:

[The “Millennium Goals” to be reached by the tax are] Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty; Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education; Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women; Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality; Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health; Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases; Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability; Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development. — American Policy Center Report

. . . and, as the APC report says, “Who could oppose such noble goals?” In the process, however, the UN will morph into the world’s largest collection agency . . .

. . . pressing to collect the promises the world leaders made at the Millennium Summit. The UN wants the cash . . . to establish its power over sovereign nations and to enforce the greatest redistribution of wealth scheme ever perpetrated on the world. — American Policy Center Report

And now we have billionaire Bill Gates, who

. . . proposes a financial transaction tax (FTT) on tobacco, aviation, fuel and carbon (energy), to be enforced by all members of the G20 nations. The financial transaction tax has been excitedly talked about in the halls of the UN for a decade. Called the Tobin Tax, named after a Yale economist who dreamed it up, FTT would give the UN almost unlimited funding by taxing every stock and monetary transaction in the world. — American Policy Center Report