Re: Double taxation!!! Definitive.
>"But why special treatment for dividends? Workers pay income tax on wages and salaries, and then they pay sales tax at the store and property taxes on their homes and excise taxes on tickets -- all on spending from earnings that have already been taxed once."
Yes, but under the Bush (Jeb) administration here in Florida we no longer have to pay the formerly onerous tax on our country club memberships.
Surely this is a major aid to the economy. Some of us have voluntarily increased our tips to caddies. This is proof positive of trickle-down economics.
Publius