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Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by burkaman on Thursday July 28, 2022 @01:32PM (#32267633)
The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws that benefit someone's personal finances. You're looking at this from the wrong direction - instead of asking "why shouldn't they be able to invest based on their knowledge", ask "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"
Re:House Democrats to propose ban on lawmaker stock trading ... by tootallgavin on Thursday July 28, 2022 @02:03PM (#32268029)
> The goal is to remove an incentive to pass bad laws

that will happen regardless of the monetary incentive

> that benefit someone's personal finances.

I don't know how to contextualize this. There should be no slaves.

> "why shouldn't they be able to pass laws based on their investments?"

Hopefully, they are invested in their community, their city, their county, their state, their country. I don't know where you want to go with this. Obviously some people are... invested differently. Don't vote for these people

> You're looking at this from the wrong direction

we have different viewpoints, this why it seems this way