Limit political appointees, elected officials and policy creators in the government ability to invest in single stocks and other investments that utilize insider information.
Make all investments made during time in public office publicly available for review by all citizens.
Too many in government are entering poor and exiting rich.
Limiting the ability to take advantage of insider information for investments would return the intent of service not selfishness.
Those found to use insider information should have a forfeiture of investment and gains, potential conviction of insider trading and loss of position when found guilty.
I do not think Congresspeople should be allowed to invest in any stocks bonds or other financial assets because of conflicts of interest and financial pressures created by entanglements created by their interaction with these financial instruments.
I’d extend that to their significant other, their parents and children.
The only way to manage this properly is to allow them to only have ONE bank account thru the congressional credit union (which already exists and gives much better mortgage, loan interest rates than ANYTHING you’ll see elsewhere…which is already a gift to their position in our society), and this account is monitored by the NSA
Because congresspeople are fallible, they’re people, they’re subjected to outside pressure; and their financial entanglements can and often DO become a matter of national security, in a sense that lobbyists have disproportionate influence over them; and then spies within our own government and without (IMRAN AWAN) have the ability to blackmail them to control them, and then finally the military industrial complex stock portfolio forms as irresistable a draw to these people as heroin or nicotine…its impossible to resist FREE AND EASY MONEY, which is what a war portfolio is when you control who goes to war and when and with which companies’ weapons.
That is a very bad situation. We need policymakers who aren’t in it to make money off war. Or killing people in other ways with food or with weather. We need very serious people who are in it for others, and for pushing humanity forward; and if they are in it for the money, they’re welcome to do it the normal way: Sell drugs, sell your body, sell your soul in hollywood, sing, act, be funny in front of others, get good at financial stuff, sell a book, make something useful to soceity
i was watching a video of hawley and thought to myself, why not give them a bog standard basic 401k like most of us have. you pick contribution and risk level. thats it, nothing more. also make sure they are only able to use common investment firms everyone else uses, no special boys club senators only firm. make sure everyone else has access to whatever they pick. that is their only option for investment for however long they and their immediate family are in office. if they want to sell off everything and dump it into a specific biotech or weapons company, they can do so 90 days after they leave office, permanently. that information should also be made public by mandate.
at least this way, if there is anything funny going on, the rest of us can join.