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So true tweet: (Original Post)
applegrove
Dec 2018
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jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. So there should be no securities laws?
Or congresscritters should not own stock?
applegrove
(118,022 posts)2. Can you imagine a world where senators and congresspeople would
have to have blind trusts when in office? Public service would surely be service then. I can dream can't I?
Bettie
(15,998 posts)3. Congresscritters who own stock should
own it through blind accounts, where they are not the ones managing it or able to direct which companies to invest in to avoid insider trading or voting based on "what's good for my portfolio" rather than what's good for the country at large.
Ostensibly, being a congresscritter means public service, but they always manage to come out of congress WAY richer than they went in.
AlexSFCA
(6,137 posts)4. Love how she is exposing congress
she is new with a set of mind that congress is corrupt (it is) and disclose all of it publicly.