The UN Is About to Institute a De Facto Tax on American Citizens: 'The Ultimate in Taxation Without Representation'

The United States has no shortage of coal, wood, and fowl — enough, as the old saying goes, to provide all the tar and feathers needed for those who would trample on American sovereignty. And the latest culprits, conservatives say, are the globalist bureaucrats at the United Nations, now moving to impose what even the Wall Street Journal calls “the ultimate in taxation without representation.”

According to the WSJ, the U.N.’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) — a London-based body with zero sovereign authority over the United States — is “poised to impose a global tax on carbon emissions” through a scheme that would charge between $100 and $380 per metric ton of carbon dioxide produced by commercial ships exceeding certain limits.

If enacted, the plan would mark the first time the U.N. has ever claimed the power to levy a direct tax, with the revenue flowing into a U.N.-controlled fund overseen by the same bureaucracy that created it.

The Trump administration isn’t sitting quietly. Officials have reportedly warned of sanctions against any country whose U.N. delegates vote for the proposal, calling it a brazen assault on U.S. independence and global free trade.

“Being taxed by the U.N. would be far more offensive than the taxes imposed by Great Britain against the American colonies more than 250 years ago,” Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X. “Those taxes sparked the American Revolution.”

DeSantis added a message that echoed across conservative America:

“The U.N. should be defunded, not seeded with new tax revenue.”

He’s right — and history proves it.

When the British Crown passed the Stamp Act of 1765, imposing taxes on newspapers, diplomas, and almanacs, even the most educated colonists erupted in fury. They saw it as an attack not only on their wallets but on their right to self-government and the free exchange of ideas. A young John Adams famously accused Parliament of taxing printed materials to “deprive the colonists of knowledge.”

By the time the Stamp Act took effect, the colonial resistance — often involving tarring and feathering of British tax agents — had driven nearly every distributor from office. The message was clear then, as it is now: Americans will not be ruled by unelected foreigners.

Today, as the U.N. attempts its own modern version of the Stamp Act, Americans are once again being asked to surrender their independence to distant bureaucrats — this time in the name of “climate justice.” But if history is any guide, the spirit of 1776 still burns too brightly for that to happen.

President Trump’s administration has made it clear: America will never accept global taxation without representation.