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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by spacehome on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:05PM (#17832474)
Sure, but just because two things are taxed at the same rate doesn't make them the same.

And I would argue that, in effect, the capital gains are taxed less because the tax is not taken out each year, and instead the capital is left to compound.

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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by Godel_unicode on Thursday August 23, 2018 @11:43PM (#17832616)
"...paid dividends (including capital gain dividends and exempt-interest dividends".

https://www.irs.gov/instructions/i1099div#idm140075526633184

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Re:End Stock Buybacks, Save the Economy? by loeg on Friday August 24, 2018 @12:30PM (#17835960)
I think that parenthetical section is calling out capital gains distributions (something common for mutual funds) and exempt-interest dividends in particular because they are not ordinary dividends.

"Capital gain dividend" does not mean the same thing as "qualified dividend."

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