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To: Jeff Hayden who wrote (136884)4/19/2010 1:36:01 AM
From: Cogito  Respond to of 543544
 
I agree with your statements about dividends.

The "taxed twice" argument I mentioned is one that I have often heard used, but it's weak, as far as I'm concerned.

If we decided that taxing those corporate earnings twice is horribly unfair, we could fix the problem by simply taking the percentage of corporate earnings that were paid in taxes, and exempting that percentage of the dividend from taxation.