Helping the powerful safely escape this perilous aspect of power is not only in the interest of power holders, but is also in the interest of all who are daily impacted by their decisions.
The U.S. Treasury will give priority to making interest payments to holders of government bonds if lawmakers fail to reach an agreement to raise the debt ceiling, according to an administration official.
Because of this discrimination against dividends, a profitable, cash-flow-producing public company like mine will return 65 cents of every dollar after taxes as interest to debt holders but only 55 cents as dividends to shareholders.