The amount and nature of taxation, whether of the income stream generated by a particular investment, or that levied on interim dividends or capital gains realized upon the disposition of an asset, must be among the many complex factors considered by any rational investor in assessing the relative merits of an investment opportunity.

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One of the odder distinctions within Conservatism is the disagreement about whether it is an ideology at all, worthy of a capital C, or simply a disposition or identity, with a small c, which can tolerate an awful lot of difference.

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