(03-20-2020, 09:38 AM)p_rushing Wrote: Any one of them if proven should have profits taken and pay for people losing their jobs.

People getting rich in office needs to stop. Everyone in public office needs to be forbidden from personally owning/trading stock. Everything needs to handed over to a 3rd party to control and all funds need to be in publicly available mutual funds. Same thing for owning businesses or starting new ones while in office.

I'm not ok with telling someone what to do with their portfolio once they hit office. I would be completely on board with requiring all stock trades by members of Congress, judges/Justices and the Pres/VP be recorded and made public in a quarterly report, along with requiring that all tax returns from those same groups be made public. Using knowledge of an impending disease outbreak to reassure the country while engaging in insider trading is disgusting.

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