Donald Hank begins a May 17 WorldNetDaily column this way:
Conservatives know that Sen. Barack Obama has recently introduced the Global Poverty Act, which some commentators have said would bankrupt America by giving an additional 0.7 percent of GDP to Third World governments.
That may well be true.
Actually, it’s not. As we detailed, the Global Poverty Act would establish no specific funding source, would not commit the United States to any targeted level of spending, and would not give the U.N. the power to impose a tax on the U.S.
Yet Hank goes on to pretend that it does all of these things. In railing against “government-enforced socialist wealth sharing” and claiming that welfare is only about “paying people to live a dangerous lifestyle,” Hank adds:
[B]y politicizing charity and impoverishing Americans (to the tune of over $10,000 per person), the Global Poverty Act would make it more difficult for Christians to continue being the most generous people in the world. Instead, we would make them unwilling donors to the world’s most corrupt charity, the U.N.
But it doesn’t. And Hank is irresponsible and deceitful to claim, in the face of facts, that it does.