Archived Ocasio-Cortez: 'Members of Congress should not be allowed to own individual stock' (thehill.com)
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Archived Ocasio-Cortez: 'Members of Congress should not be allowed to own individual stock' (thehill.com)
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[–] tokui 2 points 42 points 44 points (+44|-2) ago
Useless. They'll have spouses do the dirty deed for them.
Need death as the deterrent.
[–] LakotaPrude 0 points 25 points 25 points (+25|-0) ago
Exactly. Rules like this are irrelevant because they're so easy to work around through friends and family. Just look at Hunter Biden.
[–] Pepper-theDoctor 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
This rule would actually help in that scenario because it's illegal for Hunter Biden to inside trade and legal for sitting members of Congress. He's getting away with his corruption because of a lack of will to prosecute.
The bigger issue is that it would require businessmen to leave companies they work for or are board members of. It would basically disqualify some of the most qualified men in the nation from serving in Congress
[–] Gas_the_Jews88 0 points 7 points 7 points (+7|-0) ago
Guillotines should make a comeback. Death to any politician that breaks the law or abuses power
[–] Diggernicks 6 points -6 points 0 points (+0|-6) ago
Death to all catholics
[–] polygeek 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Not as useless as you might think. The questionnaires from the SEC include spousal behavior disclosures.
I like your death option, though.
[–] flapjack_charlie 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Make it so their spouses or anyone living in their household cant either. That's what brokerages do.