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Presumably by taxing dividends (and possibly capital gains, depending on who you ask) as normal income, and eliminating other quirks of the tax code that overwhelmingly benefit the wealthy.


Which is soon followed by the inevitable "but I was already taxed on this money!" wealthy investor complaint.


That does not follow. Complaints about double taxation on dividend income are based on the existence of corporate taxes.




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