LOLGreece - Part 1268

[Bacon King]

This article is biased and the Swiss are being incredibly disingenuous. The Greek and Swiss governments have been in ongoing negotiations about this for several years. Greece wants Switzerland to implement a tax withholding scheme for this money, which the Swiss did in similar agreements with the UK and Austria but refuses to do for Greece. Switzerland is also not offering to do anything that would in any way weaken their bank secrecy laws- the Swiss proposal is literally just that the "Greeks should implement a voluntary self-reporting scheme for people with money in our banks, or something, then we will totally follow up on it."

[Bacon King]

Bacon King is, by himself, a more credible source than any German newspaper on issues regarding Greece.

No, that's not how an argument works. The burden of proof is on someone who contests the validity of what is the prevailing viewpoint, not on the person presenting the mainstream view.

When one "questions" something, they are the ones who have to disprove it, because the implication is that whatever is being questioned is already assumed to be true.

This is a weird rule to follow because every side in a debate should be required to back up their argument with facts if requested/contested and you shouldn't get a free pass for claiming to be speaking for conventional wisdom

some sources for my previous post:

Greek-Swiss Treaty: Athens Closes in on Wealthy Tax Evaders (Spiegel, August 2012)
Greek-Swiss tax deal remains elusive (Reuters, Feb 2014)