I wrote eight days ago that the Global Justice Report, published by Thomas Piketty’s World Inequality Lab, was “utter lunacy” because of its radical class-warfare tax agenda.

Most notably, it called for a 20 percent annual wealth tax and a 90 percent top income tax rate. These policies are far crazier than even the proposals of AOC and Crazy Bernie.

But our friends on the left must be having a nuttiness contest because the United Nations just published a plan – The Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth – that arguably is even worse than Piketty’s hare-brained scheme.

Here’s a screenshot (click to enlarge) of what the bureaucrats have proposed.

If my math is correct, the report has 80 specific proposals, all of which are either massive tax increases or massive government freebies.

And some of the ideas are so radical that I think Piketty must be very jealous.

• Limits on both wealth and income, implying 100 percent tax rates above certain levels (FDR and Francois Hollande would be happy).
• Confiscating private retirement savings.
• The U.N.’s version of Modern Monetary Theory.

In reading the extensive list of freebies, I’m reminded of the Wizard-of-Id parody I shared back in 2011. The guy in the last frame of the cartoon strip asked a very relevant question.

I’m also reminded of the column I wrote with two cartoon images – drawn by a former intern – showing how the welfare state begins and then showing how it morphs into a dependency wagon (a late Danish friend had a version called “The Party Boat“).

That being said, the U.N.’s crazy plan goes much further than the U.S. welfare state or even the Danish welfare state.

So, given my artistic limitations, I asked ChatGPT to modify my second cartoon to show how the U.N. agenda would encourage everyone to hop in the wagon of government dependency.

And notice how the driver is celebrating equality of outcomes (a supporter of Kamala Harris?) but also wondering why the wagon has stopped moving.

Which brings us to the second cartoon.

The moral of the story is that it’s not possible for everyone to ride in the wagon. There also need to be people in the productive sector of the economy pulling the wagon.

But who wants to be a chump when the government mistreats you for working and rewards you for dependency?

Way back in 2009, I explained to a TV audience that parasites need a healthy host. A flea or a tick gets no benefit from a dead dog or cat. Apparently, the folks at the United Nations don’t understand this simple concept.

P.S. Needless to say, the U.N. bureaucracy that published this report should be defunded. Yesterday, if possible. Heck, given the U.N.’s track record, maybe the whole blob should make do without American tax dollars.