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Re:Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend by lmm on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:43PM (#34606074)
Dividends are cleaner and easier to understand. The tax code shouldn't be encouraging companies to make things more complicated than they need to be.
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Re:Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend by hedgehog on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:03PM (#34606193)
I think the decisive advantage of dividends was that buybacks weren't legal until the 80s.
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