Goldman Sachs: Corrupt but extremely well managed.

[MrFun]

I read an article that the corporation, Goldman Sachs paid only 1.1 percent in taxes. I wish middle class and working class people had that kind of tax rate.

[MikeH]

Paid.

[MrFun]

yeah

[KrazyHorse]

I read an article that the corporation, Goldman Sachs payed only 1.1 percent in taxes. I wish middle class and working class people had that kind of tax rate.

Instead of reading an article you should probably read the publicly available annual earnings reports, you twit.

2011 pre-tax earnings 6169MM, provision for taxes 1727MM
2010 pre-tax earnings 12892MM, provision for taxes 4538MM

[Wezil]

If Greg Smith can do it, so can Darth Vader.

The scathing resignation letter of the Goldman Sachs executive has inspired a sheaf of online spoofs written on behalf of several imaginary employees.

Within hours of the New York Times publishing Smith's letter, in which he calls the investment bank a "toxic" place where managing directors referred to their clients as "muppets", the villain of the popular Hollywood sci-fi epic Star Wars also decided to quit via British satirical website, The Daily Mash.

Using many of the same phrases Smith penned in his letter, Darth Vader said he no longer felt at home in the Empire.

"The Empire today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about remote strangulation. It just doesn't feel right to me anymore," Darth Vader said in his letter.