It is an insight that Modigliani and Miller are offering the corporations that I think they often don't see that the real issue in the dividend-- both the dividend and the debt policies-- are really taxes and nothing else.

这是MM法则给予公司的建议,但是他们常常看不到,股利政策中最重要的是,不管是在股利还是负债政策中,只有税负才是关键

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According to Modigliani and Miller, if you add taxes to their debt irrelevance proposition, it means that companies will want to borrow a lot and the real advice they would be giving to Bill Gates is: what's the matter with you? Why aren't you borrowing money?

根据MM理论,如果在负债不相关理论中加入税负因素,就意味着公司愿意大量负债,他们会给比尔·盖茨一个建议,你脑子有问题吗,为什么不借钱

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