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To: Your Nightmare

Thanks. That makes sense.

I didn't realize that income for professional investors was considered capital gains. I never even thought of it and assumed they derived their income from the fees they charge their customers. I reinvest my dividends so I have not had to deal with that yet.


547 posted on 02/16/2005 11:48:27 AM PST by CSM ("I just started shooting," said Gloria Doster, 56. "I was trying to blow his brains out ....")
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To: CSM
I didn't realize that income for professional investors was considered capital gains.
I'm actually talking about individual investors. But it's basically the same either way. The money eventually ends up in a real person's hands and when he spends it he would be taxed under the FairTax so he needs more nominal return or his real return declines.
549 posted on 02/16/2005 12:04:59 PM PST by Your Nightmare
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