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The Importance of Dividends and Interest Income
Dividends and interest payments are disadvantaged relative to capital gains in the US tax code. In the long run, when taxes are taken into account, dividend paying stocks tend to underperform non-dividend paying stocks. More than half of the popular book studied recommend equity-style tilts either to value stocks, growth stocks or small cap stocks.