'Tis the season for trick or treating for Unicef. Unicef collects millions of dollars from the US, and uses it to give aid to children across the world.

What many people don't realize is that the aid comes in the name of the UN, not the US. After all, UNICEF is the United Nations Children's Fund. That is the very UN that criticizes the US at every turn. Libertarian demigod, Neal Boortz points out that the UN actively supports the following positions:

• Make American citizens accountable to a world criminal court for actions that the UN deems to be a crime that would not be a crime under the US Constitution or US laws.


• Levy a tax on individual Americans to support UN welfare and indoctrination programs elsewhere in the world.


• Levy a tax on American technology to fund UN programs.


• Force the United States to raise tax rates on its citizens and businesses so that our lower tax rates won't allow us to engage in "unfair tax competition" with nations with higher tax rates.


• Control American's access to and use of certain National Parks and historic sites in the name of "preservation" as defined by the UN.

Remember this, next time a kid sticks a little orange box in your face begging for money. The US is better off putting that money into US charities, than the hands of the UN. If we are going to be charitable, than we should damn well get credit for it.