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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: combjelly who wrote (762411)1/8/2014 8:09:21 PM
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it all went to dividends and bonuses. In other words, the 1%
Dividends are the primary source of money made by mutual funds which are owned by the majority aka the 99%. Not to mention all that repatriated money got taxed at the corporate rate and then again as dividend income.

Those bonuses also got taxed twice.

Which is ok, but it isn't a very efficient boost to the economy.

Which part - all the taxes? or people spending their dividends and bonuses boosting the economy.



To: combjelly who wrote (762411)1/8/2014 11:10:01 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573927
 
Dividends are good. If they gave it to the shareholders, it wouldn't be dead money. If they put solar panels on their buildings to reduce their electricity bills, it wouldn't be dead money. If they give every employee a $1000 Holiday bonus every year, it wouldn't be dead money.
About the best that can be said for it is that all that dead money is why we aren't seeing the oft-predicted inflation.



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