What I would like to see is a law that if you have debt other than accounts payable that are current that you can't pay dividends, period. If a company is trul

What I would like to see is a law that if you have debt other than accounts payable that are current that you can't pay dividends, period. If a company is truly growing well investors won't mind them taking on debt to grow and not paying dividends. If it's not growing why should it be taking on debt? I would grandfather existing debt, however, to avoid disrupting the market too much. I would also like to see dividends only able to be paid from profits, period, no grandfather. You didn't make money, you can't pay out dividends.