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Yes, now tax avoiding Americans flee to South Dakota.



Exactly. And that's what this whole crackdown on Switzerland was all about. Not about stopping tax evasion or people hiding money, but about the US lobbyist profiting instead. At no point was it about justice.


Bingo! It is about keeping the money inside the country. It's not just the US. The German authorities even went so far as to offer and pay money to whistleblowers/thieves with CDs full of customer names. It looks like an economic war.




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