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Re:All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congress... by reasonabl_human on Saturday June 05, 2021 @03:55PM (#27408021)
They weren’t given financial data from company execs… instead a research report on pathology / virology. Cut and dry, not insider trading. Vote to pass new / other legislation if it bothers you that politicians can trade stocks freely.
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Re:All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congress... by ViViDboarder on Saturday June 05, 2021 @05:29PM (#27408600)
Sorry, that’s not how it works. The people who are doing it are the ones that can vote to pass new / other legislation.
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Re:All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congress... by jkhdigital on Saturday June 05, 2021 @07:38PM (#27409339)
And they are voted into office by people like you. It’s called representative government.
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Re:All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congress... by ViViDboarder on Friday June 11, 2021 @02:21AM (#27469950)
Yes. That’s exactly my point. We don’t have a direct democracy so then it fea that people should stop complaining and “just vote” is ignorant of how change happens. You have to get a loud enough voice to make representatives to take up this action in the first place.
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