Dividend Defenders

摘要

Now is not the time to raise tax rates on investment income," said Lewis Hay III (pictured below, second from right), in a July 24,2012, Wall Street Journal editorial. In addition to the impact that higher rates would have on seniors, continued the executive chairman of NextEra Energy, hiking rates would discourage investment in dividend-paying companies and "hurt vital sectors of the economy... that are critical to economic growth and job creation."