When dividend are abandoned for capital appreciation, you are being sold snake oil. The voodoo that IS Free Trade, is a curse. Restore taxation law based upon entry to our market. Tariffs are the balance that this system was designed to circumvent. FAIR Trade demands that American consumers protect their own means of production.
Corporations never pay taxes, their customers fit that bill.
For those who say this is a new age, are ignorant of axioms in economic principles. The businessman is not the enemy nor is he the cause of this hemorrhage. The unholy alliance of academia, who rationalizes intellectually suspect policies, is based upon the contributions and grants from their corporate donors. Government embraces their trickery as an easy means to control the consumer and require that they become more dependent upon the policy makers and bureaucratic dispensers. No wonder the outflow of real wealth needs to be downplayed.