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Cash and give it to shareholders because thats what the shareholders want and give it to them shareholders in the form of buybacks rather than dividends because as marco rubio says, the buybacks are taxed at a much lower rate than the dividends are. thats not fair that why should buybacks be taxed at a lower rate? it doesnt make a huge amount of sense. im sympathetic to what rubio is doing here. his proposal is likely to sink the minute it comes out because its hard to effect in practice. but bu...

Buybacks are such a lightning rod because people rightfully see most of that benefit is accruing to the 10% who own 80% of the stock. >> m & a, mergers and acquisitions what you often see when a company buys another is when they streamline the business and improve operations they end up laying off. >> synergy. >> thats nicer than layoffs. >> we go after these companies for buybacks say saying its irresponsible, theyre lining their own pockets. as the ceo of a company it is your job as a fishery ...

Netflix, u.s. steel. theyre paying almost or absolutely nothing and i know the three of us arent. >> so you want to know the irony? if you hate buybacks then what you really want is amazon. does nos buybacks. the reason theyre not going to pay taxes, their profits doubled from 2017 to 2018. we have preferential for stock based compensation. we let them write that off and we let you write off research and development. amazon takes full advantage of that. theyre compensating employees with shares....

>> no noncommunist is going to say amazon has not hired people and spent a lot of money in the economy. >> does the issue remain what a complicated tax structure we have? as long as corporate america or rich people have their own tax attorneys or tax departments a tax attorneys job is to find loopholes and minimize what a company or a wealthy individual pays. frank rhule is still doing his taxes on his dining room table. while that will paradigm still exists, the average american is never going ...

No. i think what were trying to find is the happy medium between -- >> is there really a happy medium? im not dogging on corporate america. think about carried interest for a minute. all along the campaign trail even while they were working on tax reform, the president railed against private equity firms and carried interest saying this is a ridiculous hookup. either he was lying or member of congress were. the tax cut came through and carried interest still in there. >> these are hoop loopholes...

Down at the stock exchange. and markets are expected to react today to the ongoing china talks and the all-important minutes from the federal reserve meeting back in january. i hear the bell. those minutes will be published later today and will tell investors what the fed wastorying about interest rates. companies are preparing to announce more stock buybacks in 2019. we know already that in 2018, it was a record-setting year for stock buy backs. u.s. companies announced a whopping 1.1 trillion ...

Theyre great for shareholders and shareholders are everyday people in their 401(k)s. beyond garys view who helped orchestrate this tax cut, now were hearing from republicans and democrats, maybe buy babbs are too much. maybe we need to set limits. whats your overall thesis? >> this is not new. we had companies for a long time, 30 years that have bought back stock when they determined they couldnt earn a better return putting money into other projects. its not virtuous to say corporations shouldn...