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Strategies & Market Trends : John Pitera's Market Laboratory
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To: Nemer who wrote (12004)2/24/2009 12:51:29 PM
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Nice article. I think the average dividend paid out over the past decade was around 1.5% on the S&P 500. The reason for the drop is the trend towards share buy-backs, which are a stealth dividend as they are taxed only once.

The double taxation of dividends makes for poor management, as we've seen with the wasteful and ridiculous corporate borrowing to fund share buy-backs the past several years.

Dividends should be fully deductible by corporations and taxed as ordinary income by investors. This would encourage greater dividend payments and more responsible corporate governance. It would also discourage wasteful share buy-backs.
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