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1) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments CAN NOT be a dual citizen of any other country. Dual citizenship is an instant security risk, questions loyalty, and is a conflict of interest.

2) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments CAN NOT own stocks, commodities, or bonds outside of a retirement system (401k, etc). Anyone elected to office or appointmented by elected official must divest within 90 days with all documentation, profits, losses, and tax records released to the public. Persons in these positions are often in possession of information that is not available to the public because their position requires it. The SEC refers to this as "insider trading" and that is a Federal Crime carrying serious penalties that those elected to public office and their direct appointments are not immune from.

3) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments must make their tax returns, assets, or other investments (such as in a business or real estate, etc.) public every year and be prepared to answer any questions regarding said records at any time.

4) Congressional pay is directly connected to the budget being balanced. No balanced budget means pay stops until it's balanced again.

EDIT: Almost forgot. These would be Constitutional amendments, not a bill that can be repealed.

1) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments CAN NOT be a dual citizen of any other country. Dual citizenship is an instant security risk, questions loyalty, and is a conflict of interest. 2) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments CAN NOT own stocks, commodities, or bonds outside of a retirement system (401k, etc). Anyone elected to office or appointmented by elected official must divest within 90 days with all documentation, profits, losses, and tax records released to the public. Persons in these positions are often in possession of information that is not available to the public because their position requires it. The SEC refers to this as "insider trading" and that is a Federal Crime carrying serious penalties that those elected to public office and their direct appointments are not immune from. 3) Anyone elected to public office and their direct appointments must make their tax returns, assets, or other investments (such as in a business or real estate, etc.) public every year and be prepared to answer any questions regarding said records at any time. 4) Congressional pay is directly connected to the budget being balanced. No balanced budget means pay stops until it's balanced again. EDIT: Almost forgot. These would be Constitutional amendments, not a bill that can be repealed.
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I’ve always favored revoking the right to privacy for federal officeholders, and heavily scaling back what they can “classify” while limiting the timespan of “classification” to not more than the end of a subsequent term of the House. Also, if the “classified” materials once declassified reveal criminal acts, the parties responsible face immediate public hearings for treason before a military tribunal that requires unanimous decision for exoneration, otherwise, hanging.

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I think we do the death penalty wrong in this country. These are the people that would qualify for the death penalty:

Sex criminals

Most financial criminals including, C-suite executives, hedge fund managers, those who specifically profit by harming others, excessive embezzlers, etc. Imagine if Sarbanes Oxley had a death penalty in it.

Politicians abusing their office.

Serial killers, mass murderers, or those who kill professionally.

Executions should be public as well.

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  1. yes
  2. i dont see a problem with owning treasury bonds or index funds. They should have to convert everything into cash, tbills, index funds, annuity or similar instrument that doesnt favor one corporation over others.
  3. no one should pay taxes or have tax returns. they already have to disclose their holdings. we need not just to know, but to prosecute when its obvious they're cheating the system. The Supreme Court or some other body needs regular procedure to deal with Congressional cheaters.
  4. yes. and theyre ineligible for reelection.
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For number 2, There is a little thing called "Israeli Bonds" that are investing in Israel and buying stock in companies they own or control. US treasury bonds can be allowed. Index funds can still be manipulated with insider trading.

For number 3, Agreed. The idea is to make elected office holders finances completely transparent and open to public review. But I guess they can keep their credit card they use for gay porn online to themselves.

For number 4, I thought about that but I cannot see the budget not being balanced long enough to be criminal. Fuck ups do happen. The idea behind these amendments is to make these people's activities transparent to the public and stop the grift and abuse of their positions to make themselves rich.