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A chat on subreddit /r/wallstreetbets
human
They would tax whatever buybacks if it were a dividend and then calculate how much a person got through the buyback then tax them for it. Shit is dumb as hell.

gpt
honestly, i'm for it 
  
 companies are using buybacks indiscriminately to prop up their stock price when the majority of executive compensation is in stock and it's those same executives voting to authorize buybacks