I hate to see the Swiss give up their bank secrecy principle.
Freeze all Swiss accounts, including gold, until they agree with our government.
I’d love to see the names of all the tax-dodgers in the US, though. Of course, I’m still waiting for the list of Soviet spies in the USA during the Cold War that was discovered after the fall of the USSR. That would also be very interesting....
“Why are Gold Bugs so bad at math?”
We’re not. :)
For background on Obama’s cozy fundraising relationship with UBS US CEO Robert Wolf see:
http://cinie.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/whos-robert-wolf/
>>The populist SVP, the country’s biggest party, said Switzerland should not take in any detainees from the U.S. prison for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, which the Swiss government said last month it could consider to help shut the camp down.<<
Fine.
>>Switzerland should also reconsider its policy of representing the United States in countries where it has no diplomatic presence, the parliamentary SVP said in a statement.<<
OK, that’s one of the few things that makes Switzerland important.
>>The SVP said gold stored by the Swiss National Bank in the United States should be repatriated and Switzerland should ban the sale of U.S. funds in the country to protect Swiss investors after the failure of U.S. regulators.<<
Cool, if they think their gold is safer between the Russians and Western Europe than in Fort Knox they can keep it wherever the hell they want to.
>>The comments came after UBS agreed on Wednesday to pay a fine of $780 million and to disclose about 250 names of U.S. clients it said had committed tax fraud to settle U.S. criminal charges that it had helped rich Americans dodge taxes.<<
If they are gonna help drug gangs and other criminals dodge taxes then f*** them.
Robert Wolf, CEO of UBS Americas, George Soros
The skeleton in Obama’s money closet
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/4088
Obama Advisory Board Member (UBS’s Robert Wolf) Is Senior Exec With Firm Under Federal Investigation For Tax Scam
Never should’ve named their country after a cheese with holes.
Bin Laden had access to Swiss bank account (UBS)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article488064.ece
EEK! Not the Swiss! Watch out, or we’ll be executed by having molten cheese poured down our eye sockets, in the tradition Swiss manner!
Just kidding, this news bothers me about as much as... oh wait, it doesnt bother me at all.
Immediately after they got the 17,000 names and the money, I believe that Justice turned on the deal and filed an action against USB which is exactly the action that the Swiss government and USB thought they were avoiding when the made the settlement.
I may be wrong here but it looks as though the Swiss are pissed because the US lied to them.
The Swiss are a landlocked people with few natural resorces (although fantastic scenery). They chose their banking policies and political neutrality in order to give themselves a strong economy without the major industries of other Western nations. Threatening their banking policies would be like telling Miller and Budweiser that they can’t brew beer anymore. It’s a threat to the foundation of their economy. Should anyone be surprised that the Swiss would resist this for all their worth and threaten revenge on anyone who forces them to change?
Why is that difficult to understand?
Instead of screaming for the heads of the “tax evaders” and demanding that Swiss banks suddenly begin selling out their clients, we should be telling our government to spend within its means and let people keep the damned money they earn. It belongs to the folks who earn it, not to the federal thugs who want to confiscate it. Leftists want us all to hate those “evil tax dodgers.” Just as they want us to hate the “rich”. Personally, I’d very much like to be a rich tax dodger. And I could just hate the government!
Can’t say as I blame them: END THE IRS~!