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60 Minutes did a thing on Switzerland and all the fake headquarters of companies that are just post office boxes, to save taxes. AMERICAN COMPANIES, dumbazzes. What do say now, Pub brainwashed MORONS.Ay caramba.
Swiss banking laws have cheated every country in the world out of tax money and allowed the very worst international criminals and dictators to put away billions in stolen and extorted money, stick it to those bastards, they've had it coming for decades.
This is what socialism looks like, join us and do as we say or else, obamaturd would fit right in.EU Threatens Tiny Switzerland Over Low Taxes
Despite not being a member of the European Union, Switzerland is under intense pressure from Brussels to raise taxes as companies flee high-tax EU welfare states in favor of more business-friendly Swiss cantons. And if the nation refuses to bow down soon, so-called eurocrats are threatening retaliation.
The Swiss government has been in discussions with EU bosses for over a year regarding Switzerlands non-compliance with the EU Code of Conduct for Business Taxation. The EUs goal, according to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, is to eliminate what the supranational regime in Brussels calls harmful tax practices low taxes which attract capital, businesses, jobs, and workers away from the crumbling European super-state.
But the EU tax regime does not apply to Switzerland, Swiss authorities insist. The nation has a long history of avoiding foreign entanglements, and despite immense pressure, it has steadily resisted calls to submit to regional authorities and continental "integration" schemes.
In Switzerland, cantonal governments close to voters set their own tax policies. The resulting competition between the more than two dozen cantons fosters a business-friendly environment of low taxes, minimal government interference, and widespread prosperity. That is one important reason why international businesses flock to Switzerland in droves.
The Swiss model works so well that even as the EU and its single euro currency face a crisis of monumental proportions and possible economic implosion, Switzerlands economy is doing just fine. Its GDP per capita is about double the EUs, while its unemployment rate is around half.
The Swiss government also consistently posts budget surpluses as its bloated EU neighbors drown in debt and seek bailouts. In fact, Switzerland is even helping to fund the handouts for profligate European regimes. And its economy is the most competitive in the world, according to the global competitiveness index.
With a heavily armed population of less than eight million, Switzerland has maintained its sovereignty and independence through two world wars raging on all sides and the more recent erection of the EU, which now completely surrounds the tiny alpine nation. With a decentralized system of government, the Swiss have also been able to largely preserve their liberty despite constant European pressure.
But Brussels ruling over half of a billion people so far is not giving up yet. A recent EU report threatened that if satisfactory progress is not made on ending Switzerlands low tax rates within the next six months, unspecified alternative measures will have to be considered. And according to EU diplomats cited by the Swiss News Agency, retaliation measures might be in the cards.
Just who do these unelected oiks think they are? Bullying a sovereign state outside of the EU to comply with their greedy tax practices. What they really mean is, as a centrally planned soviet-style economy, the EU cannot cope with competition, said Ian Parker-Joseph, the former leader of the UK Libertarian Party. This is what happens when democracy meets an authoritarian dictatorship, and all the more reason to resist such unreasonable demands.... But something tells me that the oiks in Brussels wont be around for too much longer to put pressure on anyone.
Incredibly, EU bosses claim to consider low corporate tax rates a form of subsidies. And if the Swiss refuse to comply with European demands, the punishment could be devastating especially because Switzerland depends so heavily on international trade.
One day Brussels will certainly make Bern give in. Switzerland will either have to implement the code of conduct or make concessions, Geneva University political scientist René Schwok told the Swiss Info news agency. It will be forced to find a solution. For example, it might lower taxation for Swiss firms and raise it for foreign companies.
Indeed, Switzerland has been working to maintain friendly relations with European governments. It recently signed treaties with the UK and Germany promising to hand over tax revenues purportedly owed to the two governments but not the names of clients.
But the European Commission reacted with outrage at the treaties. Because the two governments negotiated without the EU and sidestepped several of its demands, the supranational regime is threatening to sue them in the European Court of Justice.
National rulers are adding to the pressure on Switzerland. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for example, viciously railed against Switzerland recently for refusing to help France track down alleged tax evaders, threatening to make the tiny country into an international pariah if it did not cooperate.
"We do not want any more tax havens, Sarkozy roared at reporters earlier this month, citing Switzerland and Lichtenstein. The message is very clear: countries which persist in being tax havens will be ostracized by the international community."
And tax-funded pro-tax lobbyists and propagandists joined in the condemnation, too. "It may be a welcome step for the EU if France is prepared to use its political muscle against Switzerland," said Markus Meinzer of the taxpayer-financed Tax Justice Network, which opposes financial privacy.
The EU has also repeatedly demanded that Switzerland automatically accept the growing avalanche of European laws promulgated from Brussels in exchange for being able to trade freely with the bloc. So far, however, the Swiss have not given in to the bullying.
Switzerlands strongest political party, the center-right Swiss Peoples Party (SVP), continues to take a hard line against the perpetually growing EU apparatus and its efforts to infringe on the small nations sovereignty. The population overwhelmingly opposes foreign entanglements as well.
The EU defines terrorism as offenses that may seriously damage a country or an international organization where committed with the aim of: seriously intimidating a population; or unduly compelling a Government or international organization to perform or abstain from performing any act; or seriously destabilizing or destroying the fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures of a country or an international organization. EU critics have pointed out that the supranational regimes bullying tactics fit several elements of the definition almost exactly.
Of course, the EU is not the only ailing powerhouse to bully the Swiss. Last year, the U.S. government was terrorizing the nation about its banking and tax laws, too. And the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which has essentially become a cartel for bloated welfare regimes also consistently targets Switzerlands economic liberty.
Some critics said the EU was using Switzerland as a scapegoat for its own self-made economic crisis. Others lambasted European leaders for terrorizing the tiny country instead of fixing the EUs own problems possibly by using the Swiss model that seems to work so well for Switzerland.
60 Minutes did a thing on Switzerland and all the fake headquarters of companies that are just post office boxes, to save taxes. AMERICAN COMPANIES, dumbazzes. What do say now, Pub brainwashed MORONS.Ay caramba.
No wonder why you're so goddamn dumb - you get your news from TV...
Why don't you go do a little bit of research - read some books....
Socialism is a failure and it rapes people from identity and liberty...
That's right, dittohead, you're ALREADY paying for the uninsured, in the most expensive way possible: ER care, 750k bankruptcies, no preventive car, 50k deaths, and people not working and going on welfare to get medicaid. BRILLIANT. And not all gangbangers...love the way dittohead brains DON'T work.
Switzerland is like having the Cayman Islands in the middle of the EU, chumps.
It'd be nice if you mentioned that your link is a total BS RW blog, AS ALWAYS.
Switzerland is so much more Socialist than the EU yet they have much lower Taxes than the EU. Hmm? Yea you sure you American Socialists/Progressives want to keep spinning that shit? And they wonder why the EU is on the brink of all-out chaos & ruin. Look who's running the EU.
Don't you just love it when conservatives praise a highly liberal society such as Switzerland? All based on taxes too(maybe some on firearms tradition). Amusing.
But then again, even conservative Europeans are more to the left than anything.
Switzerland is so much more Socialist than the EU yet they have much lower Taxes than the EU. Hmm? Yea you sure you American Socialists/Progressives want to keep spinning that shit? And they wonder why the EU is on the brink of all-out chaos & ruin. Look who's running the EU.
You'd be deluding yourself if you thought the Swiss were conservative.
Switzerland is so much more Socialist than the EU yet they have much lower Taxes than the EU. Hmm? Yea you sure you American Socialists/Progressives want to keep spinning that shit? And they wonder why the EU is on the brink of all-out chaos & ruin. Look who's running the EU.
You'd be deluding yourself if you thought the Swiss were conservative.
Switzerland is so much more Socialist than the EU yet they have much lower Taxes than the EU. Hmm? Yea you sure you American Socialists/Progressives want to keep spinning that shit? And they wonder why the EU is on the brink of all-out chaos & ruin. Look who's running the EU.
You'd be deluding yourself if you thought the Swiss were conservative.
And in an intelligent world economics have no political affiliation......
Switzerland is so much more Socialist than the EU yet they have much lower Taxes than the EU. Hmm? Yea you sure you American Socialists/Progressives want to keep spinning that shit? And they wonder why the EU is on the brink of all-out chaos & ruin. Look who's running the EU.
You'd be deluding yourself if you thought the Swiss were conservative.
Well the EU sure isn't Conservative. Hell,we're not Conservative here either. The Swiss do have lower Taxes than the EU so i doubt they're more Socialist than the EU is. Looks like the Swiss did the right thing staying out of the EU. I have to applaud them on their wisdom. And the EU should be ashamed of themselves for trying to strong-arm them.
