Members of Congress trading stocks is insider trading

[pretergeek@mstdn.social]

@stux I always thought that politicians should be volunteer work.
Edit: If we HAVE to have them.

[remywhisker@mastodon.social]

@stux bUt ThEy ArE sO pOoR.

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@gooba42 @stux It'd have to go into a special index that buys stocks evenly then. The indices that you see on the news covers at most 2,000 stocks and they're weighted so some affect the index more than others

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@stux "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." - US Declaration of Independence, 1776

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@trebach @stux Whatever needs to happen to make it so, we should just do it.

[aachrisg@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@stux congress made Jimmy Carter sell his small _ peanut farm_ to avoid conflicts of interest.

[passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social]

@pomegranate_stew @trebach @stux and that’s not even mentioning tipped employees. If you SHOULD receive over $30 a month in tips they can pay you $2.13 per hour. Why even have a number? It’s so paltry it doesn’t cover the taxes on what customers felt sorry enough to leave you.

[trebach@functional.cafe]

@passwordsarehard4 @pomegranate_stew @stux The sum of that $2.13 per hour and your tips are required to add up to greater then minimum wage or your employer is required to make up the difference.

Usually it does. If it doesn't and you bring that law up for them to compensate you, they tend to sack you for being shit at your job

[bedifferent@mastodon.social]

@stux Since Vought told the GOP in 2010 not to elect leaders (the quote and source are out there will add if requested), the toddlers are all there in congress following in the footsteps of their higher-up toddlers.

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@stux In addition to being blatant insider trading, it's also a glaring conflict of interest with their congressional duties.

[numodular@c.im]

@stux Secondary to politicians writing policy for #TechBros and #FossilFuels #grift #AbuseOfPower

Replace them with ethical #scientists