Uh, yeah … uh, um, possibly

Goldman’s rigging online polls, now?

From the Telegraph of London on Thursday:

Goldman Sachs is investigating claims that one of its computers was used to rig a public vote on the introduction of a so-called “Robin Hood tax” on bankers.

From Business Insider on Friday:

A few days ago robinhoodtax.com, asked the public to vote on a “tiny” tax on bankers that would donate no more than .05% of each banking transaction to the poor.

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Robin Hood’s security team said that it traced the erroneous votes to two computers, one of which is allegedly registered to Goldman, according to The Telegraph.

From the Digby on Sunday:

Unbelievable. Why in the hell are people entrusting all this power to such a bunch of babies?

On the other hand, if they are forced to pay a .05% tax on transactions it goes without saying that they’ll all hold their breath until they turn blue because it just won’t be worth it to work anymore. And then where will we be?

It seems that somebody at the great vampire squid isn’t too keen on the idea of the banks that brought the world economy to its knees owing anything to the commoners who bailed them out. It’s not a European notion they’d like to see spread to the U.S.

Tell us again how that personal responsibility stuff is supposed to work, how about it?

[h/t Crooks and Liars]