Sitting members of federal government should have their pay capped at no less than twice the national average, and be prohibited from investing money in stock trading.
LOL, as if the majority of their current salary is wage taxes at all. This does nothing about the legalized bribery we call "Special Interest".
That's a good start, but may I also suggest they be made eunuchs and given hysterectomies?
Really? Remove any investment in the future from them?
Remove THEM.
The opposite is preferred. Require them to be married and have natural born children.
Let's introduce a bill for that, I'm sure they'll all vote in favor.
Right after they vote on term limits for themselves.
and be prohibited from investing money in stock trading.
This is something I think every American can agree on. Would it even make it to a vote? Literally all of them do it
Probably enough powerful people benefitting from various angles that it wouldn't make it to a vote. Kind of like term limits. Wildly popular -- even many long term Congress people supposedly support them -- but nothing is ever done. On that issue, and this one, I'd say that clearly the people who "want" these regulations, don't.
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