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Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

Dude i work sunrise to sunset for my living.

i was not aware that tax evasion was legal as far as the swiss are concerned.

you learn a lot here at the general topics forum i guess.

Tax evasion is illegal. What the Swiss do isn't. Their laws say as much.

The US sould not pressure them to reveal accounts.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

Tax evasion is illegal. What the Swiss do isn't. Their laws say as much.

The US sould not pressure them to reveal accounts.

but the US can ask

and i maintain that the Swiss have the right to say "no".

i still think that tax evasion is wrong. no matter how bad i hate paying taxes.

there has to be some sort of international cooperation to prevent crimes committed in one part of the world from going unpunished in another.

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

there has to be some sort of international cooperation to prevent crimes committed in one part of the world from going unpunished in another.

Are you willing to make Sharia law your law? If you pick and choose there is no law. Its called political expedience.

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

Are you willing to make Sharia law your law? If you pick and choose there is no law. Its called political expedience.

No. im not prepared to do that... and its not even remotely what im suggesting.

but if a citizen of some foreign nation extorts millions of elderly peoples retirement funds and funnels those funds into the bank accounts of my nation to keep the cash illegally for himself... i think that my nation should make whatever evidence they have available to the authorities of the foreign nation.

i dont agree with the US trying to strong arm anyone... but i do think that they have the right to ask the swiss to make evidence available so that criminals can be prosecuted.

let me ask you this.

if a shifty eyed con man extorts millions of dollars from retirees and widows and claims those funds were lost in the stock market... when in fact he has rat holed the money into foreign banks so that he can keep the funds for himself...

what would you do Castlebravo?

just say f*ck it and look the other way?

Originally Posted by CastleBravo

when you pick and choose there is no law

when you refuse to enforce the law - there is no law