Should or Not Brazil Enter OECD?
By Julio
Severo
In his report titled “A
New World Tax Regime” in The New American in 2014, Alex Newman said,
The
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — a 34-member
(presently) international economic organization that works to influence world
financial operations — openly announced plans to advance the longtime
socialist-backed dream of a planetary taxation regime. The plans call for
legitimate governments and dictatorships worldwide to share all private
financial data on citizens… that, experts say, in conjunction with other
related machinations, such as an emerging plan to force businesses to pay
equally high corporate taxes in all jurisdictions of the world rather than
setting up shop in lower-tax nations, will lay the foundation upon which to
build a “World Tax Organization.”
American
taxpayers are sending over $100 million per year to a bloated international
bureaucracy that has morphed into a “cartel enforcer” for welfare-state
politicians seeking to prevent tax competition, according to a new study.
Entitled “Cartelizing Taxes: Understanding the OECD’s Campaign Against ‘Harmful
Tax Competition,’” the paper examines the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development and its increasingly fierce campaign to “cartelize” global
taxes. And the picture that emerges is troubling to say the least, according to
experts.
So should or not Brazilian President Jair
Bolsonaro force Brazil to enter OECD? From the conservative standpoint, as
shown by Newman, Brazil and the United States should have no part in OECD,
which is a socialist and globalist organization.
Yet, Bolsonaro has been pressing so hard
for the Brazilian inclusion in OECD that his excitement was interpreted by his
supporters as a sign that the Trump administration would be granting support
for Brazil to be included in OECD in 2019. When such immediate inclusion did
not happen, people interpreted that the Trump administration had revoked its
support. But U.S. President Donald Trump
himself renewed the support, even though giving no specific date for the
inclusion.
Trump said on October 11, 2019:
“The
joint statement released with President Bolsonaro in March makes absolutely
clear that I support Brazil beginning the process for full OECD membership. The
United States stands by that statement and stands by @jairbolsonaro.
This article is FAKE NEWS! bloomberg.com/news/articles/…”
However, Trump is giving support for a
more immediate inclusion of Argentina, whose economy is in a quagmire. Besides,
Argentinian voters are choosing socialism again.
Even though using
Argentina against Brazil is an old geopolitical trick of U.S. strategists,
the non-support of the Trump administration for the Brazilian entry in OECD in
2019 is not bad news. It is good news. And if Brazil refuses permanently to
join OECD, it would be joyful news.
Alex Newman would also like the U.S. to
join such conjectural refusal. His view is that the U.S. should leave OECD,
which is a socialist and globalist organization. So why would the U.S. government
under Trump support the inclusion of Brazil, considering that Bolsonaro has
openly condemned socialism?
But not only Trump has helped OECD. When
Newman wrote his articles for The New American, former U.S. President Barack
Hussein Obama was channeling US$100 million annually from U.S. taxpayers to
OECD. Why Trump is doing what Obama would have done is a mystery.
A greater mystery is Bolsonaro’s
excitement and efforts to force Brazil to enter OECD. Years ago, Bolsonaro
confessed that he evaded all taxes he could. So he hates high taxes as all
Brazilian do.
Because Bolsonaro
has forcefully spoken against socialism at the United Nations and because
he has a history of advocating tax evasion, it was expected that he would avoid
putting Brazil in OECD or another socialist organizations.
Bolsonaro has much bad experience with
high taxes, because he was born in Brazil, which has historically high taxes,
and socialism only makes worse what has already been very bad in Brazil for
centuries. With such Brazilian experience, it is no wonder that Bolsonaro
evaded taxes. But it is a total wonder his current excitement to force Brazil
to enter in a socialist organization determined to increase taxes around the
world.
Alex Newman said that the main agency to
bring a global tax is exactly OECD. He said, “The OECD’s global tax-information
regime should do the trick,” adding:
Unsurprisingly,
also pushing the schemes has been Socialist International, the premier alliance
of socialist and communist political parties around the world. The powerful
coalition, which met in South Africa in 2012, again called for global taxes, a
planetary currency, and a global tax information-sharing regime in one of its
resolutions.
Newman noted,
“According
to a brief by the OECD, among the data that governments would share with each
other as part of the ‘automatic exchange of information’ regime are various
categories of income, changes of address, purchase or sale of property, and
more. Instead of being secure in one’s house, papers, and effects without a
warrant and probable cause, governments and autocrats around the world will be
free to rifle” through most sensitive information of citizens around the world
at will.
Other quotations from Newman:
The
chance for abuse of individuals’ information is 100 percent. Consider that
among the early participants in the scheme is the imploding socialist regime
ruling Argentina — currently searching frantically for wealth to plunder as the
economy it misrules collapses around it. Also on board is the radical South
African Communist Party-African National Congress regime, which has been
implicated in genocide in South Africa by the world’s leading expert in the
field, and which has more poverty today than when power was transferred from
the white government to the ANC. Eventually, globalists hope to force every
government and dictator on the planet into participating. More than a few
brutal autocracies are already lining up to join.
Top
OECD leaders also admit that benefiting rulers, not those they rule, is the
goal of the machinations. “We are happy to redouble our efforts in this area,
working closely with interested countries [governments] and stakeholders to
design global solutions to global problems to the benefit of governments and
business around the world,” declared OECD boss Ángel Gurría, though it was not
clear how having massive compliance costs and mandates foisted on companies
would benefit them.
“The
OECD began to seek to restrain both member and non-member countries from
lowering taxes and to encourage lower tax jurisdictions to raise their rates,”
explains the 54-page paper, authored by University of Alabama law and economics
scholar Andrew Morriss and economic researcher Lotta Moberg with George Mason
University. And the organization has now turned “into a cartel aimed at
restricting competition among states.”
Some
experts even said the OECD might be among the most destructive programs
financed by American taxpayers in relation to the cost. “I’m not a fan of
international bureaucracies … But the worse international bureaucracy, at least
when measured on a per-dollar-spent basis, has to be the Paris-based
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,” noted long-time OECD
critic Dan Mitchell, a senior fellow at the libertarian Cato Institute. “Can
anyone think of a more destructive item in the federal budget, at least when
measured on a per-dollar-spent basis? I can’t.”
So if OECD is so detrimental to the
sovereignty of nations, including with its ambition to create high global
taxes, why doesn’t U.S. President Donald Trump withdraw the U.S. from it? Why
has he been encouraging Brazil to enter this socialist and globalist
organization?
Newman abundantly recognizes that OECD is
a socialist and globalist organization. And he also recognizes that OECD is
funded in large part by $100 million annually from U.S. taxpayers.
The fact that Trump is supporting
Bolsonaro to force Brazil to enter OECD in no way makes OECD a good
organization. Trump is much better than Hillary Clinton, but he is not perfect.
In fact, recently he
congratulated China for the 70th anniversary of its communist revolution,
which slaughtered some 50 million Chinese.
Bolsonaro is not also perfect. He
has honored a man who has dishonored Trump. Steve Bannon, a man honored by
Bolsonaro and his son Eduardo, said
that Trump is “just another scumbag” and crook.
Notwithstanding their mutual
imperfections, instead of letting Trump lead him to force Brazil to enter in a
socialist and globalist organization as OECD, Bolsonaro should use his past
experience as a tax-hating and tax-evading man to encourage Trump to leave
OECD.
Portuguese version of this article: O
Brasil deveria ou não entrar na OCDE?
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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