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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by kenneth on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:11AM (#21014856)
As a Swiss citizen who immigrated to the USA to study, it's an impertinence that I had to lose all my Swiss bank accounts because they found out I had touched the tainted land and I was no longer worth keeping as a customer.

Jokes aside, I totally understand why after the botched 2009 issue, Swiss banks just don't want to deal with Americans. We got screwed hard by the DOJ, and were bullied into going against our core principles. I don't have a lot of empathy for Americans not being able to get Swiss bank accounts after the USA fucked us over like that.

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Re:Switzerland in the age of automatic exchange of banking i... by shkkmo on Thursday September 19, 2019 @06:35AM (#21014971)
> I don't have a lot of empathy for Americans not being able to get Swiss bank accounts after the USA fucked us over like that.

Why not? We don't blame the Swiss for this. This is clearly the fault of the US government and I think we can have sympathy with each other for being screwed over by one of the most powerful organizations on the planet.

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