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Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)

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From: jmfbahciv
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:41
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Scott Lurndal 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.

Mine haven't.  Would you mind mentioning one stock which has been
increasing (sector would be fine)?  The increases for the stocks I
hold just started to increase dividends in the last year or two.

/BAH
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From: jmfbahciv <See....@aol.com>
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Subject: Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
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