WTF! Our Taxpayer Money Will Pay for Intel’s $130 Billion in Stock Buybacks and Dividends?

Jeffrey Goodman
7 min readAug 5, 2022

From 2011 to 2020, Intel blew $130 billion on stock buybacks ($81B) and dividends ($49B). Now they need taxpayers to give them billions?

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Imagine that the father in a family of four did this with all the money that the family had….

Imagine the husband in a family of four gave away all of his family’s money to some person he’d never met.

That person indirectly told the husband that he should do this. Heck, he pushed the husband to do this — said it was his responsibility…

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Jeffrey Goodman

Navigating facts and numbers to help people. Strong opinions on climate change and healthcare. Objective, not neutral. MIT engineer, Wharton MBA.