Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agoA bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the Housewww.npr.orgexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down10
arrow-up1117arrow-down1external-linkA bipartisan bill to ban lawmakers from trading stocks is unveiled in the Housewww.npr.orgDavriellelouna@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 4 days agomessage-square10fedilink
minus-squareBoddhisatva@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·4 days ago Many lawmakers argue that new rules around financial portfolios will discourage people from wanting to serve in Congress. Sounds better every time I hear it. Can you imagine if legislators were there to serve their constituents instead of themselves?
minus-squareAreaKode@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-23 days agoOMG! They’d be like a servant or something! To the public!
minus-squareVivianRixia@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 days ago“But if I can’t get rich off the new laws I pass, why would I bother doing this job?”
minus-squareprole@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·3 days agoWe are so deep into capitalism that even our politicians are rent seeking.
Sounds better every time I hear it. Can you imagine if legislators were there to serve their constituents instead of themselves?
OMG! They’d be like a servant or something! To the public!
“But if I can’t get rich off the new laws I pass, why would I bother doing this job?”
We are so deep into capitalism that even our politicians are rent seeking.