Is Swiss Banking in Cahoots with the IRS?

Here’s food for thought for you. Is the Swiss Banking system actually cahoots in with the IRS and our government? I believe there is sufficient evidence to indicate that their recent buckling to legal maneuvering on the part of the U.S. and their supposed outrage at having to do so, is merely a ruse. I believe that there is reason to believe that there’s more to these actions of divulging names of their U.S. depositors than simply complying with the premise of a lawsuit. You decide.

So here’s the problem with the U.S. suing the Swiss Banking system to reveal the names of its account holders who may be guilty of tax fraud or tax evasion. You’ve got at least 2 wrongs that definitely aren’t making up any rights.

First of all, it’s a fishing expedition. None of these individuals have been proven in the U.S. to have committed tax fraud or tax evasion. And yet without formal indictments the U.S. feels that it has cause to subpoena every American-held account in Switzerland? No, instead the U.S. is making suppositions that if someone has an overseas account in the Swiss Banking system then they must be committing a crime. That kind of supposition is AGAINST our legal system and our due process of law.

Additionally, IF the government’s idea of tax fraud or evasion has ANYTHING to do with paying federal income taxes, then that too is illegal on our country’s part as federal income taxes are indeed illegal. We merely pay them out of fear, submission, and ignorance. No wonder we see IRS agents training with guns! I’m sorry. Someone tell me again why IRS tax collectors need to train with guns? Hey if it’s for their own self-defense, I’m all for it. But it’s the IRS who sanctions and REQUIRES such training. (Man, I’m sure many of you would love to work for a company that requires you to use a firearm instead of penalizing you from even storing one in your car on company property!) A repo man is not allowed to use a gun to get property back. Are we supposed to believe that the IRS is a government entity? Um…it is NOT. These are U.S. citizens who have been deceived into believing they work for an official government entity and are enforcing some kind of federal law by collecting taxes on our labor—at gun point if necessary! So why do the IRS have so much authority to spread fear into American citizens? Oh, yeah…now I get it – because the IRS cannot commit their actions with the strength of truth and the law behind them. They can only get away with what they do via force, fear, and brutal compulsion. If you don’t believe a word I’ve said in this regard, check on the testimony of countless former IRS Agents who have been fired and socially skewered for questioning the IRS tax system, unable to find any justification for the federal income tax, who they themselves do NOT pay a federal income tax as a result of their belief that the law is on their side — and join a million of other Americans who do not pay their federal income tax, and who have boldly attempted to get their findings out to the rest of the citizens in the U.S. One last note on the IRS — after decades of protestors taking this matter to courts of every level, to their IRS supervisors, and to legal mediation, there has yet to be ONE person who can show the LAW which enables the IRS to collect personal income tax. Even the Supreme Court found that the 16th Amendment did NOT provide any new power or authority to tax than the government had prior to the 16th Amendment.



Second fly in the ointment. Tax evasion is not illegal in Switzerland. And tax fraud has to be proven. The fact that the Swiss Banking system has collapsed to a law suit by the U.S. government has suspicion written all over it. The Swiss Banking system generated 36 percent of their income in the U.S. last year. They contribute to about 20 percent of their economic growth in their own nation every year. The fact that they would crumble like a sick dog due to a suit filed in a U.S. federal court is very suspicious to me. Either their nation is crumbling, or ours made a sweet deal with them. After acquiescing to providing 300 names to the U.S. (not evidence of any wrong-doing, mind you, just names, hence the “fishing expedition theory”) the U.S. turned around and sued for over 52,000 more names!! Now how much do you want to bet that the U.S. doesn’t even have cases filed for over 52,000 wealthy individuals they suspect of tax fraud or evasion? Switzerland has no legal justification to accommodate such a request other than bullying and fear or other reprisals. Peter V. Kunz, head of the business law department at the University of Bern stated, “Switzerland is afraid of fishing expeditions from abroad,” Kunz said. “It cannot be that just out of curiosity, without any hint of illegality, foreign authorities come to Switzerland and ask for information.” The ridiculous nature of what is happening is that Switzerland IS allowing individuals to get information simply out of curiosity!
Bank secrecy is literally a cash cow in the Swiss Banking systems. They could lose at least 50 percent of their depositors if they do not recover from this scandal immediately.

Michigan Senator Carl Levin who oversees the U.S. Senate subcommittee which is investigating United Bank of Switzerland proposed new laws this week to STOP Americans from acting freely with their own money and to prevent them from using offshore financial centers altogether. (This legislation was previously sponsored by Barack Obama!) That’s right. Our own currency and economy is going to hell in a hand basket, and this uppity senator wants to ensure that we all go down with it! At the very least they want to be able to put stiffer taxes on those with offshore accounts and give the Treasury Department the authority to take action against foreign jurisdictions that impede their efforts.

Our government claims that “conduct that actively facilitates tax evasion amounts to a declaration of war by offshore secrecy jurisdictions against honest, hardworking taxpayers. We’re determined to fight back and end the abuses inflicted on us by those tax havens.” In my opinion those who have placed some of their assets overseas are merely fighting the war that already exists within our own borders of illegal tax burdens and an economy that is unstable and out of control BECAUSE OF CHOICES WHICH OUR GOVERNMENT HAS MADE…not some act of God. To me, our government bullying one of our allies in this manner and attempting to eliminate this venue for the income earners of our nation is no different than them attempting to take our firearms away. I truly believe that they are indeed attempting to give us nothing to fight back with, including our own money.

Now how is this kind of reach of power even possible across country borders? Because of the Federal Reserve and its relationship with the World Bank, that’s how. And here we thought we lived in a republic, when in fact we are being governed by an international banking entity.

This problem will not fix itself folks. We don’t get to live in a republic if we do not act like free citizens and use our freedom to right wrongs. Take action. Start writing and start calling your government “leaders.”


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