What was that promise from Candidate Obama about getting other countries to like us more?
A judge ordered the U.S. government to say whether it was prepared to shut Swiss bank UBS AG in the United States as part of a battle to learn the identity of 52,000 secret accounts suspected of being used by Americans to avoid taxes.
U.S. District Judge Alan Gold, set to preside over a hearing Monday of a suit seeking to force UBS to provide the information, asked specifically Wednesday about “receivership and/or seizure of UBS’ assets within the United States.”
Gold said such remedies might be requested of the court if UBS failed to comply, or was prevented from complying by the Swiss government. He gave the U.S. Justice Department until noon (1600 GMT) on Sunday to respond.
Switzerland has vowed to prevent UBS from handing over client information to U.S authorities, in an attempt to defend bank secrecy, and says the tax case targeting its biggest bank is souring diplomatic ties.
The Templar Nation does not fuck around. The Swiss government, as required by Swiss law, will seize the transaction and holdings records of UBS and bury them so deep in a vault that even the IRS army and their Customer Service Shotguns couldn’t find them under a hundred Obama administrations.
Before that, of course, there is the Swiss militia the IRS would have to get through.
Ugly Americanism strikes again!
hmm, IRS agents against the Swiss militia-I think we can all agree that is a winning idea!
I’m with Army of Dad.
I’d like to see those SWAT wussies attempt to take on the Swiss. Heck, let the BATFE and all those other pretend paramilitary Federal police help out!
It’ll be fun watching all the dimo thieves trying to figure out where to hide their undeclared payoffs when this comes to fruition.
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