🚀 go-pugleaf

Peter Flass <peter...@yahoo.com> writes:
>Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:
>>> Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>> jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com> writes:
>>>>> Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>>> J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 13:37:35 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On Monday, February 5, 2018 at 9:31:46 AM UTC-5, Scott Lurndal wrote:
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>>> "Reverse inversion".  What's "spurious" about it?  US corporate taxes
>>>>>>>>>> were ludicrously high
>>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>>> Nonsense.   US Companies were rolling in dough before the
>>>>>>>>> manifestly foolish tax plan was passed, which will never
>>>>>>>>> be paid for in our children's lifetime.
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> +1
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Spoken like true knee-jerk liberals.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Wow, you can't support your statement so you devolve to namecalling.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A lot of that money was just sitting overseas collecting dust and interest.
>>>>> Now some companies are moving it back to the States using it for
>>>>> infrastructure and distributions to employees (which is taxed as income--
>>>>> so part of it is ending up in the Federal coffers).
>>>> 
>>>> Cite?
>>>> 
>>>> Many (Most?) CEO's have indicated they'll return the cash to shareholders
>>> rather
>>>> than invest in plant or people.   There obviously will be exceptions by
>>>> either altrusistic CEOS (one in 10000) or those currying favor from the
>>>> idiot-in-chief.
>>> 
>>> Shareholders have been experiencing reductions in dividends since the
>>> banking system imploded so they should get some.
>> 
>> No, they haven't.    Every one of my stocks that pay dividends have
>> increased the dividend annually for the last decade.   The single
>> exception being GE, which suffered self-inflicted financial damage.
>> 
>> 
>
>But, many companies don't pay dividends, but use the money to goose the
>stock price so that shareholders can take the profits as ling-term capital
>gains at a lower rate.
>

granted, but that doesn't support Barb's statement.