Originally Posted By: Tom Joad
A company makes $100 profit. It pays 35% in income tax it can only disribute $65 to shareholders in dividend or capital gains. If as a dividend it is taxed at your individual rate or when you sell your stock you are taxed an additional 15%. Its a double tax period end of story.


you obviously don't actually understand what a capital gain is and no amount of cutting and pasting google searches will help you.