This age-discriminatory tax damages the overall economy, thereby hurting government revenues.
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The more efficient and effective approach is to allow profitable companies to return excess capital to their shareholders without subjecting those dividends to discriminatorytax treatment.
They are tantamount to a discriminatorytax narrowly focused on certain industrial sectors--in the case of pharmaceuticals, a sector that at great financial risk develops and makes products critical to public health and to the overall reduction of health care costs.